- Chancellor Kiesinger's Middle East Views

By ALFRED WOLFMANN
JTA Correspondent in W. Germany
(Copyright 1969, JTA Inc.)
Dr. Kurt Georg Kiesinger, the
West German chancellor, recently
received the JTA correspondent in
West Germany, Alfred Wolfmann,
for a wide-ranging interview on
the world situation, developments
in the Middle East and West Ger-
man-Israeli relations. Parts of the
interview were reported in news
dispatches at the time. Because of
the interest that attaches to Dr.
Kiesinger's views, JTA has ex-
tracted from the transcript the
full text of the chancellor's an-
steers to questions of special Is-
raeli and Jewish concern.
Q. Mr. Chancellor, my readers
are interested in your estimate of
the Near Eastern situation. Re-
cently tensions have risen, with
the invasion of Czechoslovakia and
the presence of Soviet ships in the
Mediterranean. How do you evalu-
ate the Soviet threat in the Medi-
terranean area?
A. For me, there is no doubt
that the smoldering crisis in the
Near East can very well be seen in
the same context with what has
happened in Czechoslovakia and
with the Soviet Union's new policy
in general. We do not know what

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ation with the efforts of leading
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