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...turned out to be Gerhart Eisler, who later became propaganda chief of the Communist East German government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life with Worker | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

After working a five-day week on the capitalist Times, Glaser found that Worker workers were laboring six days, so he ordered a five-day week. Eisler vetoed the order. "He told me," explained Glaser, "that we couldn't delay the revolution for a day." It was Eisler who also ran the paper's editorial policy. Once the foreign editor, then Harry Cannes, turned in a story that revolution was imminent in France. "I hadn't heard of it," said Glaser, "and I asked Cannes where it came from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life with Worker | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...wave of action to Communism which occurred in the post-war years, many people strongly protested the appearance of such people as Gerhart Eisler before University audiences. When Eisler spoke in 1948 and 1949 on such topics as "The Marxist Theory of Social Change" newspapers and commentators throughout the country branded the University as "Communist-run" and called upon the administration to ban Eisler and his ilk from the University scene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Well-Practiced Policy | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...captain neither agreed nor resisted when Scotland Yard men took Eisler off the Batory at Southampton. For this, when he docked at Gdynia, Cwiklinski sat through a palm-sweating grilling with his bosses and the dreaded U.B. (for Urzad Bezpieczenstwa), Poland's secret police.* On the return trip to New York, the Batory's crew and passengers were in turn grilled by U.S. Government agents, and the eventual loss of pier privileges forced the Poles to give up the transatlantic run. No Communist or proCommunist, Cwiklinski tried to coexist with the Polish satellite regime for the sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Billiards on the High Seas | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...weeks later Eisler was released and made his way to East Germany, where he was propaganda boss until he lost favor in 1952. He now heads an East German version of the Gallup poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Billiards on the High Seas | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

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