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Save the Scum. Last week Premier Otto Grotewohl appointed what West Berliners promptly labeled a "commissar for the prevention of flights"; to fill the job he dipped into the Communist penalty box and came up with Gerhart Eisler, the shifty little Comintern agent who recently lost his job as East German propaganda chief, and was presumed on the way out. He explained his long absence from the political arena without a smile: "I had to have my teeth repaired." Then he turned to the refugees. They were all "underworld characters, trash proletarians, black marketeers and scum . . ." but anyway, Eisler...
East Germany is apparently to be the scene of the next big Communist purge trial. Already the faggots are being gathered. The chief sacrificial victim seems to be East Germany's mouthy little propaganda boss, Gerhart Eisler, the former Comintern agent who jumped bail in the U.S. and stowed away on board the Polish liner Batory (TIME, May 23, 1949). Last week Eisler was fired and his ministry dissolved...
...jailed for "bad and bureaucratic work"; his assistant, Rudolf Albrecht, State Secretary for Food, was denounced as a "saboteur." Next in line were "a number of leading bandits" responsible for the "month-by-month decline" in coal production. Then the accusing finger pointed at Gerhart Eisler, the shifty little Comintern agent who jumped bail in the U.S and escaped to East Germany on the Polish liner Batory. There he became Chief of Information (i.e., Propaganda) in Soviet Germany. "A basic change [is needed] in the work of the Bureau of Information," said Communist Investigator Hermann Axen, whose official title...
...into the party's title (in full: "Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks"). This meeting, and the next three, set up these revolutionary milestones: 1) the Red army; 2) the "New Economic Policy," a temporary retreat from state ownership of industry and trade, permitting some private enterprise; 3) the Comintern, Communism's international...
Happily, noise seldom conquers intellect so roundly elsewhere. Few communities have reached a point where book-burning is so popular, where men like Paul Hoffman are hissed into silence, and where UNESCO and the Comintern can be mentioned in the same breath without evoking general laughter. Nevertheless, the increasing popularity of extremism is no less discouraging for the localization of its success...