The neo-Nazi German Reich party pushed today a campaign against the Social Democratic party for demanding immediate establishment of diplomatic relations between West Germany and Israel.
In the current issue of the neo-Nazi party organ, Willy Brandt, the Social Democratic candidate for Chancellor in West Germany’s forthcoming elections, was charged with deliberately having aroused Arab hostility against the Federal Republic. This developed, according to the publication, when Mr. Brandt said that if his party won a majority in the elections, he would act to establish such relations with Israel immediately.
The party publication implied that Mr. Brandt, who was an exile in Norway during the Hitler period, was a “traitor” to West Germany. The Frankfurter Rundschau, a leading newspaper, meanwhile appealed to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and to Bundestag Speaker Eugen Gerstenmeyer to prevent Mr. Brandt’s emigration from becoming an election issue.
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