West Germany’s largest political party, the Christian Democratic Union, apologized in a letter to the World Jewish Congress here for an electoral alliance that some of its members arranged with the rightist National Democratic Party (NPD) in local elections earlier this year. A letter received today from the office of Dr. Bruno Heck, general secretary of the CDU. described the alliances as “an unfortunate blunder” and said that disciplinary proceedings are under way to expel the party members responsible. The letter was a response to a WJ Congress resolution expressing concern over the CDU alliance with the NPD.
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