Referring to the publication of virulently anti-Semitic articles in a number of Communist party newspapers and in a book of poetry, President Ceausescu of Rumania promises Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen that he will personally see to it that “such things did not happen again.”
Baron Richard von Weizaecker, a 64-year-old member of Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s ruling Christian Democratic Union, who as an officer in the Wehrmacht was implicated in the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944, is overwhelmingly elected as the sixth president of West Germany.
The Church of Scotland joins the Jewish Representative Council of Glasgow in a strong condemnation of anti-Semitism and an acknowledgement that the Christian church has been guilty over the centuries of fostering anti-Semitic attitudes. (Continued Tomorrow)
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