BONN WILL ATTEMPT TO BAN RIGHT-WING PAPER ANTI-SEMITISM CHARGED; ACTION WOULD BE GOVERNMENT'S FIRST AGAINST A PUBLICATION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: February 6, 1969
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Los AN =Es TIMES
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Bonr Y-`'Ip a ? r n
Anti-Sernitisin Charged; Action Would Be
Government's First Against a Publication.
BY JOE ALEX MOBIRIS JR.
Times Staff writer BONN-Tlte West Ger- inn for what is right and j oveul and tcl lficulttcoursc.
man Cabinet decided Wed- just,. The proceedings could last
`nes clay to try to ban a The paper is ideological-. three to four yenrs?
newspaper for the first 1y close to the far-right' Other publications have
time in the 20-year history ; National Democratic. Par-. been banned here but not,
of the Federal Republic. > ty, but Frey and NPD for coil annu1.ionaI renson:
The newspaper involved leader Adolf von''ltaclden These include all isc a-
is the National Zeitung, a have been on the outs fortions which fall under'
right-wing publication some time. There iS some common law, such as ob-:
which uses the state of suspicion in right -wing raz ?,ines, but also
Israel, according to its circles that Frey would ce:.c ine mag
L+ a5t German newspapers,
critics, as a cloak for old- like to take over the. ,tvhose inflow is carefully',
fashioned Jew-baiting. movement, particularly if registtered as political pro-`
.The decision follows sev-''t the government leeks, a. a aere . o
er,.tl protests by the Israeli ,;. court ban on the NPD. -l S
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government here, a pri- 1
vate court case against the peered to be something of
papi:i' by Simon Wiesen- a substitute for action
that, head of the Jewish :;,:against the party. A pro-
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Documentation Center in posal by
Vienna, and many other Constitutional Court ban
complainants. on. the party was consi-
The paper, which calls dered by the Cabinet ear-
itself "the conscience of leer this year but no action
the nation," is published was taken.
in Munich by Dr. Gerhard Lead to Rejection
Frey. It is the most popu- Chancellor Kurt Georg
lac of all radical publica- Kiesitiger and other minis-
tions here, with a circula- ters reportedly feared that
t i o n of about 130,000, a weak case could lead to
which :makes it the second. rejection of the bid by the
largest weekly newspaper',',', C o n s' t i t u tional Court.
in the country. Rather than risk this, they
'Abuse of Freedom' decided to drop the pro-
posed action.
The Cabinet told -Minis- The National Zeitunb.
ter of Interior Ernst Ben- case could . prove to be
da to file suit in the', equally difficult. Frey has
Constitutional Court consistently attacked Is-
against the paper and any , rael but is careful to clothe
successor which might ap- any anti-Semitism.
pear under a different thus the headline of the
name. The suit will be latest issue reads:
based on Article IF, of the "Israel . is always right.
Constitution, which rules Herr Minister Benda, I
on abuses of the freedom recognize my guilt." The
of ehpre5sion. story is signed by Frey..
The decision to try to get The two other articles on
the paper banned was the front page are written
obviously a difficult one to by Jews, one of them the
because this anti-Zionist Moshe Mcnu-
not onl
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ta
ia an election year but also hin, a close relative of
because many Germans . violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
and many ? outsiders re- Inside, the paper runs
( member that it was Adolf pictures of the haplc s
hitter's :,rztio~;al Socia- Palestinians in tent ~efu-
list.s who conducted the gee camps, and o t h e c'
laq spree of book-l;cirnin , headlines such as: "The
and newspaper banning Germans Are to Blame for
Vrc y /n~ant.ly tie- Everything."
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Nazi or anything other tional Court ruling on t.hc
than a good German fight- N a t i o n a> Zcitunr, the