Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of Israel Abba Eban, the Director-General of the Finance Ministry of Israel, and John A. Waldo

s 802 # 6426 EAI "NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE" 13 s/s MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION M.A. March 22, 1951. SUBJECT: 1. Israel request for a grant-in-aid of $150 million from the US. 2. Israel . claim to reparations from Germany of $1,500,000,000. 3. Request that Prime Minister Ben-Gurion be extend- ed official invitation to visit the US. PARTICIPANTS: S - The Secretary H. E. Abba Eban, Ambassador of Israel The Honorable David Horowitz, Director General, Israel Ministry of Finance. NE - Mr. Waldo COPIES TO : NEA NE E S/P EUR GEA GER DRN CIA RA ED GTI s/s-pr. London, Paris, Moscow, Ankara, Tehran, Athens, Tel Aviv, Jerusal em, Haifa, Cairo, Jidda, Amman, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut. Problem: To take appropriate action on the three requests of the Isra el Ambassador. Action As noted Required Action : NEA NE GER GEA Assigned to 1. The Ambassador of Isra el called on me, accompanjed by Mr. Horowitz, to present and discuss a note requesting a $150 million grant-in-aid from the US for the period July 1, 1951 through June 1, 1952. The Ambassador reviewed the three points on which the Israel Government based its request for special assistance from the US: (1) An increase of 510,000 in Israel's population from the proclamation of the State to the present, and an expected increase of 600,000 in the n ext three years; (2) The heavy defense expenditures which were required by Israel as a result of the refusal of the Arab states to make peace in the Near East; and DECLASSIFIED E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 3(D) or (E) (3) Dept. of State letter, By NLT. HC NARS Dato 6.24.76 INNA IDENT IA