Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immigration wanted more information on the stowaway. It got a hair-raising reply: "Re telegram 10th. Stowaway Gerhart Eisler, German, disembarking Gdynia." Was it the Gerhart Eisler-the chubby little Comintern agent who had been called the No. 1 U.S. Communist...
Impatiently Hickenlooper snorted: "If a man is a Communist, he can go and get an education, but I don't want him to do it at public expense. There are plenty of people who haven't developed these vagaries of political thought...
...soon began to look as though Gerhart was operating strictly under his own steam and was perhaps a victim of his own ego. Carol King, his attorney and a longtime defender of Communists, almost exploded when she heard that he had jumped his $23,500 bail-money that had been put up by Communist-front groups. Cried she: "Reprehensible...
...Batory's master, Captain Jan Cwiklinski, refused to surrender his passenger. His argument: Eisler a) had paid for his passage, b) had broken no British laws, c) was under the protection of the Polish flag, and d) had been assured the right of asylum when the ship reached Communist-dominated Poland. Faced with these arguments, the boarding party retreated. Three hours later it was back., This time the Scotland Yard man not only had a warrant for Eisler's arrest but also a tough cablegram from the U.S. State Department. Its gist: the U.S. might seize the vessel...
...Words from the Sponsor. The huge red banner in the street below proclaimed "In the Soviet sector there is freedom." But on the platform of Friedrichstrasse station, which is in the Soviet sector, burly, hard-faced German cops of East Berlin's Communist-run police force hovered ominously on the edges of the crowd, eyeing the people as coldly as though they were a new consignment of concentration-camp inmates. An old Hausfrau with a shawl over her head stared defiantly back. Most passengers just waited in uneasy silence alongside their battered suitcases. These people were not running away...