German Jews have expressed satisfaction over the outcome of the general elections which gave Chancellor Willy Brandt’s Social Democratic Party a substantial majority in the new Bundestag and routed the extremist groups which polled less than one percent of the total vote. The favorable reaction was summed up by Dr. Hendrik Van Dam, general secretary of the Council of Jews in Germany, who termed Brandt’s victory “a clear vindication of democracy” and a rebuff to “the pessimists who had moaned that Germany could never be democratic again.”
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