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...case was being tried in the small town of Okanogan, Wash. (pop. 2,001), but it had a big-city price tag: the plaintiffs asked $225,000 damages for libel and conspiracy. The cast of characters read like the line-up for a movie: an admitted ex-Communist, an organizer for the John Birch Society, two former state legislators (one a Democrat, the other Republican) and a dapper weekly newspaper publisher. Bit parts were to be played by a Hollywood star and an ex-U.S. Senator...
...other hand, Wolfgang Leonhard, the ex-Communist who now analyzes Red affairs for West Germany's Die Zeit, thought it was "very possible that Khrushchev will give up one of his posts, more likely the government job." The free-for-all was clearly getting out of hand; somewhat unprofessionally the Guardian's Polish-born Soviet expert, Victor Zorza, shrugged, "it's all guesswork," then plunged back into the fray...
Domination by Default. That every thing went so smoothly was a tribute to the work of a hard-bitten organizer-Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner, 55, an ex-Communist who is the Socialists' organization boss. For months he had administered what he calls Seelenmassage (soul massage) to the party bosses in every region of the nation, arguing, cajoling, and elbowing them into fully accepting the new party line that began taking shape more than four years ago. Now, more than any other man, Wehner was in command of West Germany's oldest (founded 1863) and biggest (650,000 dues...
...believe this is not the way to handle the problem of the ex-Communist," the petition asserts. "We wish to welcome them to the democratic community, not send them to jail...
Died. Whittaker Chambers, 60, eloquent, eye-opening ex-Communist whose 1949 testimony sent Alger Hiss to prison; of a heart attack; in Westminster, Md. (see THE NATION...