A spokesman for Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger’s Christian Democratic Union branded today as an “impertinence” an invitation to Dr. Kiesinger from the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party to address a meeting of the NPD at Hanover to discuss political issues. He said no answer would be sent.
The president of the Bundestag, Kai Uwe von Hassal, a leader of the CDU, told an audience in northern Germany this weekend that he did not believe that the NPD would win any seats in the Bundestag. He asserted that even if the NPD did capture any seats, the Christian Democrats, “under no circumstances” would cooperate with them.
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