The Green party of West Germany is perhaps the most famous and influential peace party in Western Europe. The party is stringently opposed to the nuclear arms race, and has actively resisted the stationing of American missiles in Germany. In the 1983 general election, the Greens won over 5% of the national vote and are now represented in the Bundestag. One of the party’s most prestigious representatives in parliament was Mr. Gert Bastian, a former general in the Bundeswehr. Recently he resigned from the parliamentary party of the Greens. The reason given (Guardian Weekly, February 26, 1984) was that “he could no longer tolerate infighting...and organizational chaos of the party in the Bundestag.”