Word: eisler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist in the U.S., the mouthpiece of Moscow's serpentine line and the brain of the party's policies here, is a man named Gerhart Eisler. So, last week, said a man who ought to know: Louis Francis Budenz, the former managing editor of the Daily Worker who forsook Communism for Catholicism (TIME, Oct. 22, 1945). It was Eisler, said Budenz, who gave him directives right from the Kremlin's mouth...
...also said another former Red who should know: Ruth Fischer, a onetime noisy leader of the Communist Party in pre-Nazi Germany's Reichstag. She is Eisler's sister. They hate each other furiously...
Brotherly Love. Gerhart Eisler is a chunky, bright-eyed, 49-year-old German who has been in the U.S. for five years. Last week he and his slender, 35-year-old wife, Brunhilda, were packed and read)' to sail to Germany. Then the State Department suddenly took back its permission for them to leave the U.S. In their almost bare $35-a-month New York City apartment, balding Gerhart Eisler spouted "ridiculous . . . stupid . . . nonsense" at the idea that he was a super-secret agent of Kremlin policy...
...Gerhart Eisler-Berger has the background and the intellectual equipment for the role of The Brain. He and sister Ruth were the children of a Viennese scholar-philosopher. Gerhart was one of the founders of Austria's Communist Party. In Germany, in the early '20s, he and sister Ruth were at the top of opposing Red factions-she the flamboyant leader of the violent revolutionaries, he the quiet theoretician of the "reconcilers...
...Arnold Pressburger and Douglas Sirk, this suave, tinkling entertainment has a marked continental accent. It is evident in the Casanovian irony with which such matters as adultery and infatuation, both virginal and senile, are handled; in George Sanders' chilled-okra delivery of his classically flippant lines; in Hanns Eisler's unconventional score; and in the constant indication that the sets and costumes and lighting were controlled by people interested in applying their knowledge of the fine arts to the screen...