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Ambassador Harman Says Israelis 'Eichmannism,' Not Eichmann

has been made abundantly clear" that former Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann receiving a fair trial, Abraham V. Harman, Israeli Ambassador to the United said yesterday.

Cambridge to speak to a seminar at the Center for International Affairs. that the trial "has not been motivated by vengeance." He noted that charges are proven," Eichmann's sentence will "not be a question of for one man, but also the policy associated with him." "This is a trial of rather than of Eichmann," he declared.

Israel's jurisdiction in the celebrated case, Harman pointed out that government has approached Israel to ask to have Eichmann turned over to it ." He also stated that there has been no official request from any country international tribunal.

Discusses Baer Case

on the other recent event of international significance in Israel, ambassador said there has been no shake-up of the government following the discovery of Israel Baer's treasonous activities. Baer, a one-time close friend of Premier Ben-Gurion, has been arrested on charges of spying for the Soviet Union.

Although many accounts of the incident in the U.S. press have reported that Baer held a sensitive position in the Israel government. Harman remarked that he has not been on active army duty since 1950. The accused spy has been working, according to Harmon, on a history of the 1948 war. "He has not been an important defense adviser."

Baer's trial, in Harman's opinion, will be most useful in "determining how a thing like this should have been possible."

He expressed doubt that the case would be an important issue in the national elections next August, although he was not sure of how strongly the trial would affect Israeli public opinion.

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