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Across the border in East Germany, no such slow democratic debate stayed the Communists. Declared East German Premier Otto Grotewohl: if West Germany elects to go with the West, East Germany will arm to the teeth. To a cheering Red rally, he added: "The signing of the general agreement [between Bonn and the Western powers] will produce in Germany the same conditions that existed in Korea. The great danger arises of a fratricidal war of German against German...
...Grotewohl's threats raised goose pimples throughout Western Germany. So did the martial look of East Germany's 65,000 well-armed "People's Police." Unlike EDC, an army on paper, East Germany's army has long been a fact. Lodged in barracks throughout the Soviet zone are 65,000 Communist "policemen" (average age: 19), organized into 24 "police service commands." Each command is the hard core of a fighting division, well trained by Red army officers in the use of tanks and heavy artillery. Last week the Reds announced that they will expand the People...
...honey, soap and rayon off the ration list, and Propaganda Boss Gerhart Eisler cooed his "deep regrets" that West Germans wouldn't be able to enjoy the same privileges until unification-though the fact is that such rations are no problem in West Germany. East German Premier Otto Grotewohl announced an amnesty for 20,000 prisoners (crimes unspecified, presumably political...
...Bierut detrained in East Berlin, Soviet German Premier Otto Grotewohl gave assurances: "Our worthy guest can be convinced that millions of men stand un-shakeably behind the policy of friendship ... support without reservations the peace border on the Oder-Neisse line." Bierut replied: "Our people have shaken hands over . . . the Oder-Neisse line." Red delegations chorused: "The Oder-Neisse line is the border of peace...
...rest of Grotewohl's speech abandoned the recent German Communist line of wooing the West, went back to undisguised hatred. Adenauer had called the Red bluff...