Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parable. Ruth Fischer's real name was Elfriede Eisler, the first of three astonishing Eislers. The other two were Gerhart, a Comintern agent, and Hanns,* a Communist composer. At the end of her book she brings the Eislers together again by quoting a play by a German Communist poet, Bertolt Brecht...
After 22 years of hating Stalin, ex-German Communist Leader Ruth Fischer last week had got a load off her chest. The load: a 663-page, tightly packed book called: Stalin and German Communism, A Study in the Origins of the State Party.* The book was more than the heavy-going history its heavy Germanic title implied. It was also an intimate, encyclopedic exposure of the doubletalk and doublecrossing among top-level Communists...
...even then (1925) Ruth Fischer was engaged in a deadly fight with Moscow. The issue: Moscow demanded complete and unquestioning subservience of the German Communists which Ruth Fischer and some other German leaders refused to give. The blow by blow account of their losing fight that followed is the substance of Ruth Fischer's book...
Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, onetime boss of the Reichsbank (and a convicted "major Nazi offender" released last fortnight by a German appeals court) got cautiously astride the Marshall Plan fence: "I rejoice over the willingness of the American people to help Germany ... To live from alms kills a man's dignity...
Died. Emil Ludwig, 67, German-born biographer, playwright and political essayist, whose popular, sentimentalized big-name biographies (Goethe, Napoleon, Roosevelt, Stalin) set a fashion; of a heart ailment; in Ascona, Switzerland. The son of a rich Jewish ophthalmologist, Ludwig began his prolific writing career as a verse dramatist, switched to war correspondence and then to highly colored biography. A voluntary exile from Germany since 1907 (his books were later burned by the Nazis), he became a Swiss citizen in 1932, worked as a $1-a-year bond salesman for the U.S. Treasury during World...