Political sources said here today that the Government headed by Dr. Kurt Georg Kiesinger, which will be sworn in tomorrow, will probably continue the Middle East policies of the predecessor Government headed by Ludwig Erhard.
West German Mayor Willi Brandt, who will be the new West German Foreign Minister, is expected to try to maintain present West German-Israeli relations while seeking to improve relations with the Arab countries which were ruptured by West Germany’s recognition of Israel. A normalization of those relations by the new Government was predicted by King Hussein of Jordan today in an interview with the German Press Agency.
Meanwhile protests against the extremist National Democratic Party continued in West Germany. A group of 4,000 young people marched through the streets of Hamburg yesterday in such a demonstration. They were headed by A. Runau, the Hamburg Senator of the Interior.
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