Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former security chief read a six-page statement into a battery of microphones, then freely answered questions from 300 correspondents for an hour. Gist of his statement: he had defected to the Communists because "the Nazis and the militarists in West Germany are again in power" and "the Bonn-Paris axis is only a tool of the Americans." Americans, he said he had learned on his recent visit to Washington, are "downright hysterically mad in fear of Communism...
That evening in Berlin, Otto John sought out strange company for one who was head of the Bonn FBI. He drove to the apartment-office of Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, a busy, prosperous gynecologist who plays a hot trumpet, shares John's interest in woman-chasing, and is known to be a Communist. Sometime that evening, Wohlgemuth sat down at his desk and wrote a note: "The fact is that Dr. John will not return to the Western sector." Then they left together. Curiously enough, John left behind him in his hotel room a notebook that would have been useful...
When the news came that John had gone over to the East zone, Bonn could not believe it, partly because it could not afford to. The Interior Ministry charged abduction; the police hinted at hypnosis. The U.S. High Commission agreed that the Soviets had "trapped or forced" John...
Some of John's old friends still could not believe it. "He is absolutely a man of Western ideas." said a Bonn diplomat. "He was against all totalitarian systems, Nazi and Communist," said a Berlin colleague. But whether he had sold out, defected, or had been lured across, the ugly fact was that, voluntarily or involuntarily, Otto John could give the Communists more valuable information than anyone since Klaus Fuchs...
What Else? Aware of the perils behind Communist promises, the powerful Association of West German Doctors is campaigning to persuade the Adenauer government to expand its national health program and create 7,000 more jobs for doctors. One Bonn physician sourly observed: "Maybe if the Communists steal enough good men, it will make the pepper sacks [stingy ones] in the government spend a few pfennigs [to employ more doctors] . . ." On the other hand, West German doctors do not overlook the plight of their ill-doctored countrymen and do not actually discourage transfers to Communist Germany. Said the association...