Word: albertz
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...party, calling itself the Reformists, realizes the danger and is battling the old-guard bureaucrats for control. Reformist Chief Heinrich Al-bertz, a Protestant pastor and minister in the Lower Saxony Cabinet, would junk the old Marxist catch phrases, and pattern the SPD roughly after the British Labor Party. Albertz argues: "We have good ideas; we are on the right road, but we are unable to speak to the people in their own language. The policy of the present party has as little to do with Marxism as Copernicus does to the 20th century...