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...year ago, the persecution of Protestantism in East Germany was at its height. Then Stalin died, and, like the sudden end of a spring storm, sweetness and light seemed to shine from Moscow. Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl received the bishops of the Eastern Evangelical Churches and a treaty of church-state peace was signed...
...Grotewohl is Premier, but this Deputy is the real boss...
Before the show moved on to Dresden this week, East Germany's Premier Otto Grotewohl picked the exhibit's "best." His choice: a drab and dreary panel of tea-swigging functionaries, painted by seven artists and called Meeting of the Presidium of the Academy of Science of the U.S.S.R. Declared Grotewohl: "It is colossal." And so it was-19 ft. 6 in. long by 9 ft. 10 in. high...
Busily fishing in Germany's agitated waters, Georgy Malenkov summoned his two chief East German puppets-Otto Grotewohl and Walter Ulbricht-to Moscow last week for a Feast of "Soviet-German Friendship." They were wined & dined in Moscow as no German has been since the days of Von Ribbentrop. In a sudden onrush of vodka, the workers' rebellion of June 17 and the puppet regime's consequent loss of face, were supposed to be forgotten. Malenkov toasted the East German regime as "the bulwark of peaceful forces of all Germany"; he promised to give it "full support...
...Grotewohl accepted Malenkov's proposals, the communique said, with "satisfaction and gratitude." Malenkov was clearly hoping to put his East German puppets back in business after their pummeling last June. He also used the occasion to accuse Konrad Adenauer of "leading Germany toward a new war," and "again setting Germany against the peoples of Western and Eastern Europe." This was calculated to make some propaganda hay among Germany's fearful neighbors, the Poles, the Czechs and the French. But would it have much effect on the German elections? Probably not, for if there is one thing all West...