Legal proceedings will be instituted against the publisher of an anti-Semitic pamphlet which has been mailed to members of the Bonn Cabinet, Minister of the Interior J. Schroeder told the Bundestag. He estimated that about 2,000 copies of the publication had been distributed. He did not name the booklet or its publisher.
West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano declared today that Egyptian threats of retaliation if Germany established diplomatic relations with Israel would have no effect on Bonn’s decision. “The Federal Government does not permit itself to be subjected to such pressure, ” he declared in comment on a “warning” by Radio Cairo that Egypt would “draw the consequences” if relations were established between Bonn and Jerusalem.
West Germany’s top trade union leader. Willi Richter, told the JTA today that he was deeply impressed with what he saw during his recent ten-day tour of Israel. The head of West Germany’s powerful Trade Union Federation, was particularly laudatory of the role of the Histadrut in Israel’s economic, social and cultural life, Herr Richter, who headed a six-man delegation invited to Israel by the government and the Histadrut, said that in the Bundestag, where he is a Social Democratic deputy, he will strive for the creation of normal diplomatic relations” between West Germany and Israel.
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