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Kiesinger Sees East (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) HELMSTEDT, May 22. The Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Georg Kiesinger, peeped into East Germany yesterday and was greeted by an ear-splitting noise from loudspeakers and an attempt to fey a smoke screen. He is the first West German Chancellor to visit the barbed wire barrier dividing West and East Germany. Dr. Kiesinger flew by helicopter from Hanover to Schoeningen, opposite the East German village of Hoetensleben where the High street ends at the barbed wire. As soon as he fended a battery of loudspeakers mounted on an East German lorry began blasting out a din resembling the pounding of a giant hammer. East German border guards tried to set off three smoke bombs, apparently to prevent the Chancellor seeing into East Germany but only one bomb fired and wind blew the smoke away. Dr. Kiesinger climbed on to a lorry and waved to East German villagers. They waved back. The Chancellor flew off later to attend his Christian Democrat Party’s congress in Brunswick.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31376, 23 May 1967, Page 17
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