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...Communist slogan-"Democracy v. Fascism"-at its face value and joined a popular-front organization called the SED. Among them were hundreds of top Socialist leaders, including ex-Editor (of the anti-Nazi Brandenburger Zeitung) Friedrich Ebert, fat, pink-cheeked Max Feehner, onetime toolmaker, and gaunt, ambitious Otto Grotewohl. When skeptics called the SED a Communist maneuver, Grotewohl laughed and said that the Socialists, outnumbering the Communists three to one, would take over...
...Socialist leaders were in East German or Soviet prisons. In the lower echelons, the number of former Socialists jailed or killed could only be estimated, but it amounted to thousands. Socialists had been removed from all positions of importance in East Germany. Communist in all but name were Grotewohl, now the jowly Premier of East Germany, and Ebert (son of the Weimar Republic's first President), now the alcoholic mayor of East Berlin. Far from being embarrassed by the fact that so many of his old Socialist comrades were in prison, Grotewohl maneuvered to make capital out of them...
...heckled party leaders with interruptions such as: "If Stalin was so bad, then our party leadership must be bad too!"-an obvious conclusion that was certainly drawn by millions of people in Russia and the satellites. At the party conference called to agree on the new line, Premier Otto Grotewohl won the big cheers by criticizing Minister of Justice Hilde ("Hanging Hilde") Benjamin for failing to safeguard citizens' rights. Red China finally broke its silence about the disgrace of Stalin, and broadcast without comment Pravda's first cautious editorial...
Back in Berlin after a month's tour of the Communist Far East, East Germany's puppet Premier Otto Grotewohl said out loud what Red China's bosses have been soft-pedaling for the past eight months. His meaning was clear, though he phrased his words in the classic upside-down language of Communism: "The Chinese people unanimously support the peace policy of their government. They are ready to stand together to fight for the return of Formosa to the motherland...
...right to see and examine what is going on, they will reject the East German regime," said Dulles. France's Pinay sardonically pointed out that the East Germans themselves did not seem to appreciate the "social achievements" Molotov wanted to protect. "Three million Germans have fled from Herr Grotewohl's paradise since 1945," Pinay pointed out, "and the exodus is still going on, and increasing...