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Khrushchev, ready to be the life of the party all by himself, stepped down from the train at Berlin's Ostbahnhof to plant chummy kisses on both cheeks of Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and Premier Otto Grotewohl. With Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the agile Armenian, at his elbow as Bulganin's tardy standin, Khrushchev marched confidently through the station to inspect a bristling guard of Russian-helmeted East Germans, and take the cheers of some 10,000 Berliners conscripted from their government offices and factories for the occasion...
...year Hitler took over. Hitler, like Bismarck before him, suppressed the party. After twelve years' exile in Czechoslovakia, France and wartime Britain, Ollenhauer was one of three surviving leaders who met to rebuild the party in 1946. He swung behind the fiery nationalist Kurt Schumacher against Otto Grotewohl's plan to merge with the Communists (Grotewohl wound up as Premier of Communist East Germany), succeeded to the top job on Schumacher's death in 1952. Schumacher, whose health was crushed in the concentration camps, was a man of hatreds and excitement; Ollenhauer is amiable and pedestrian...
...conclave, those loyal East German boys, Premier Grotewohl and First Party Secretary Ulbricht, were rewarded with a treaty giving them the right to know how many Soviet divisions were stationed on their soil. The lesser fry-Bulgaria's Zhivkov, Rumania's Gheorghiu-Dej, Czechoslovakia's Novotny and even little Kadar from Hungary-got encouraging pats on the back. There were vast banquets at the Kremlin, a huge amount of congratulatory speechmaking and communiques galore...
...moment, however, leaders in those two countries were still firmly flying the Red flag. The Prague radio reaffirmed loyalty to the Kremlin, "our teacher and leader." And in East Berlin Premier Otto Grotewohl announced: "We are not going to change the government because it is the fashionable thing...
Last week Grotewohl got his answer in a pamphlet issued by the West German Socialists. The founding of the SED, said the pamphlet, was "the darkest day in the German workers' movement." It solemnly warned: "Whoever tries to make a pact with Communists will perish doing so ... Whoever lets the Communists have his little finger will lose his whole hand . . . Whoever tries to remain neutral towards Communism gives himself...