Despite objections from many quarters to the United Nations, the West German Government this week-end announced the appointment of Dr. Peter Pfeiffer as its observer-representative at the UN. Dr. Pfeiffer was a former Nazi Party member.
Foreign Office sources confirmed that Dr. Pfeiffer had served as a diplomat under Hitler and that he had been a member of the Nazi party. They added, however, that he had been denazified and that a Parliamentary committee found no objections to his employment in the foreign service. (In New York, the Jewish Labor Committee telegraphed Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and asked him to intervene to get the German Government to alter its decision to send Dr. Pfeiffer to the UN.)
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