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Berlin: Act of War? (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). This CBS News special presents the background of the current Berlin crisis, including interviews with West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt and East Germany's Red Propaganda Chief Gerhart Eisler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aug. 18, 1961 | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...sense of humor, discovered Gerhart Eisler, longtime Red eminence in the U.S. who bail-jumped to East Germany in 1949, is a scarce commodity behind the Iron Curtain. After facetiously broadcasting a proposal to partition Washington and to garrison "East Washington" with German Democratic Republic troops, Chief Radio Propagandist Eisler found himself afoul of Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht, who seemed to take the suggestion seriously. After explaining himself, Eisler took to a local newspaper next day to slap his own heavy hand, admitted that Ulbricht "told me I should have my head examined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 14, 1961 | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

Died. Ruth Fischer, 62, German Communist hoyden in the pre-Nazi Reichstag, who was expelled from the party in 1926, fled to France and then to the U.S., and who in 1947 denounced her brother, Ger-hart Eisler, as a top Kremlin agent in the U.S. and in 1948 wrote the scholarly anti-Communist Stalin and German Communism ; of a heart attack; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 24, 1961 | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...when Regler was released in 1940, he was proud of a graduation gift from the "bums"; it was a certificate: "By your departure, the camp is impoverished, but liberty is enriched." In the camp, too, he had heard Communist Gerhard Eisler presiding in a latrine over a party kangaroo court-an experience that afflicted him with further doubts, and diarrhea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Ghost Walks | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Regler sweated out the rest of World War II in Mexico, to receive the usual reward of those who give their non serviam to Communism-ostracism by friends, charges that he was in the pay of Washington, or of the Gestapo. Ironically, he was denied a U.S. visa, while Eisler, the latrine lawgiver, spent years in the U.S. as an unwelcome visitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Ghost Walks | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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