Israel’s Ambassador Asher Ben Nathan met with West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger for an hour yesterday and told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency afterward that their talk was “good, frank and useful.” It was believed that they discussed American policy in Europe and the Middle East and the coming European visit of President Richard M. Nixon.
Minister of Justice Gustav Heineman told the press yesterday, that the statute of limitations on war crimes prosecution could be abolished only if a majority of the Christian Democratic Party favored abolition. He said this was not the case at the present time. The CDU’s coalition partners, the Social Democrats, favor abolition of the statute which is scheduled to go into effect at the end of this year.
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