Solidarity Leader Criticizes Brandt
A leader of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity trade union has criticized former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt for cooperating with the Polish government, a West German newspaper said Thursday.
Die Welt said that Brandt, who will visit Warsaw Dec. 6-9, and his party were criticized in an open letter signed by Zbigniew Bujak, one of the leaders of the underground Solidarity organization.
“The current politics of the Social Democrats arouse mistrust in Poland,” Die Welt quoted the letter as saying. “Cooperation with the Polish government fails to take into account the yearnings of the Polish people.”
Brandt’s visit will coincide with the anniversary of the signing of the 1970 treaty in which West Germany acknowledged Poland’s western postwar border.
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