§ 27. Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will now seek to initiate discussions with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, France and the United States of America about the situation in West Germany.
§ Mr. George BrownNo, Sir.
§ Mrs. ShortIs my right hon. Friend aware that, on both sides of this House and in the country generally, there has been great concern at the break-through of the N.P.D. in West Germany? Does not he think that he should put forward some 995 proposals to see that history does not repeat itself? Britain cannot stand aside.
§ Mr. BrownThe way to avoid history repeating itself is for us not to make the mistakes we made in the 1920s and 1930s. Let us keep the thing in perspective. No one will under-estimate the N.P.D. vote but the democratic vote was over 89 per cent. in Bavaria, for example. The present democratic leaders of Germany are worthy of and should receive all our support.