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Last week Adenauer had his answer: no elections. At a special session of the Volkshammer attended by representatives of the Soviet Control Commission, Premier Otto Grotewohl said: "... Conditions fixed by Adenauer and Schumacher mean colonial elections. How can one speak of free, all-German elections if the presupposition is international security measures, which means invasion of American armies into territories of the German Democratic Republic...
...Communists' new attitude toward a king they once denounced as an evil nationalist was symbolic of a new, all-out appeal by the Communists to extreme German nationalism. At a rally of the Communist-run Social Unity Party in East Berlin last week, German Communist Boss Otto Grotewohl launched a new "National Front." Standing below a picture of North Korean Premier Kim II Sung, Grotewohl announced that henceforth the German Communists would welcome anyone into their ranks. Said Grotewohl: "No patriot . . . will be excluded . . . Our National Front is not limited to democratic elements. We want everybody, including the former...
...Defensive. Stocky, 69-year-old Bishop Otto Dibelius, chairman of the Council of Evangelical Churches (EKID) in both the Western and Eastern zones of Germany, was as quick to react as he had been against the aggressions of the Nazis. He promptly called on Otto Grotewohl, Minister-President of the Eastern German government, and presented documented evidence of Communist oppression of clergymen, church welfare groups and devout laymen. Grotewohl dismissed Dibelius' evidence as "insufficient." Other Soviet officials suggested that clergymen who did not support the Communists' "national front" should be severely punished. Bishop Dibelius' next move...
Next day Dibelius, the Eastern zone Evangelical bishops and several Catholic churchmen met with Grotewohl. From the meeting came a joint communique: "The representatives of the churches gave assurances that they were deeply concerned with the reconstruction of the life of the German people in peace and freedom. The representatives of the government gave assurances that the church in the German Democratic Republic could work unhindered on a constitutional basis...
...Leipzig woodworker, who became a Comintern agent during the Spanish Civil War, returned from Moscow to Germany with the Red army after the war, became Politburo member of Eastern Germany's Socialist Unity Party. Last month he stepped into the acting premiership of Eastern Germany when Premier Otto Grotewohl was reported ill. In imitation of Lenin, Ulbricht wears a trowel-like beard...