Mayor Willi Brandt of West Berlin pledged to a visiting delegation of Jewish trade union leaders yesterday a “rededicated effort to wipe out all remnants of Nazism in West Germany.”
Adolf Held, chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee and spokesman for the delegation, told the mayor that “the Jewish labor movement stands firmly behind the efforts of the democratic forces of the West to preserve the freedom and independence of West Berlin. “The mayor asked the delegation to convey the fraternal greetings of West Berlin citizens to the American Jewish community.
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