Metal Workers Union Thanks Lord Russell Over Brandt Release

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At the request of Heinz Brandt, the West German Metal Workers! Union has sent a telegram of thanks to Lord Russell for the part he played in the campnign to get Brandt ‘released. Lord Russell had recently returned an award given to him by the East German Government because he said he could not*Keép itwhilst Brandt was in prison. Brandt is expected to resume his activities in the “etal Workers' - Union as soon as he returns to West Germany, Before his kidnapping he was~editor of the union's paper Metall. A long-time Communist Party member and former leader of the East German Socialist Unity Party, he fled to the West in 1958. He did not , as so many othe have, become a darling of the right wing but, instead, maint. ained a militant political position.