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Late in the winter of 1949, Gerhart Eisler told 500 students in Emerson D what Marx thought about social change. The audience that heard the East German Communist that night was a singularly passive one; no jeers or outbursts marked the meeting as unusual. But the controversy raised by the meeting clarified Harvard's thinking in a very important...
...East Berlin, Gerhart Eisler, onetime top U.S. Communist who skipped the country in 1949 to return to the workers' paradise in his homeland, was finding life less heavenly than ever. Already forbidden to grind out propaganda under his own byline, Eisler had now been kicked out of his imposing villa. The villa's new tenant: East Germany's Deputy President Heinrich...
West Berlin police arrested a pudgy little drunk in a greasy suit for brawling over his taxi fare, found that he was none other than Hanns Eisler, East Germany's top composer, former Hollywood tunesmith, and brother of famed Communist Gerhart Eisler. Barely able to stand on his feet, Eisler treated his jailers to a long night of pie-eyed indiscretions. "The stock of freedom in East Germany is not high," he shouted. "Too much freedom doesn't become a people. As for the uprising of June 17, "we expected it because the workers were not living...
Captain Jan was grilled by British intelligence; he agreed to broadcast behind the Iron Curtain on the BBC's Polish program; then he called a press conference. He told of the famous trip from New York in 1949, when Communist Gerhart Eisler was stowed aboard and delivered to Poland; discussed how he and all aboard were under constant order of a political officer named Peter Szemiel, so that his own duty was "strictly navigational-I was only the driver." He said that 500 officers and men had recently been purged from the Polish merchant navy. He himself had never...
...asked in 1949 for the suspension of the trials of the 12 top Communists. He solicited funds for the Civil Rights Congress which put up $50,000 bail for Gerhardt Eisler and financed the defense on the now convicted top Reds. He asked in 1951 for money to finance cargoes of supplies to send to Communist China. He solicited funds in 1952 for defense of the now convicted "second string" Communists. In all, 62 exhibits were presented to show that Burgum's "conduct coincided with the path of the Communist Party" during the past 20 years...