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...make coke, gases, diesel oil and synthetic products in vastly increased quantities. Russia has promised to build a pipeline from Baku to East Germany to pump 5,000,000 tons of oil, with which a petrochemical industry based on the giant former I. G. Farben plants at Leuna, Halle and Bitterfeld can double East Germany's output of plastics and synthetic fibers...
...Silesia, miners quit work, booed and hissed the "enlighteners." In Dresden the Communists had to call off 33 of a scheduled 40 rallies because only two or three people showed up. At the Leuna chemical works, a rally was shouted down by workers who stamped, whistled and cried: "Free elections!" The nervous Communists alerted the whole 200,000-man East German police force, and ordered the arrest of anybody who shouted for free elections as "a saboteur, warmonger and enemy of the state." At Berlin, Molotov found it necessary to warn bluntly that the Communists would not permit another June...
...Halle, workers burned the big Leuna synthetic gasoline plant and struck the Buna synthetic rubber factory...
Last October, at his own pleading, Moncaster was released from prison, on condition that he assume a German name and go to work on a slave-labor project at Leuna, along with a group of German P.W.s. The Russians provided him with phony "German" identity papers, but never bothered to make him take off his British uniform. Last week Noel saw his chance. With the help of a sympathetic German fellow prisoner, he bought a ticket to Berlin, boarded a fast express at Leuna after the Russians had made their routine inspection and rode uninterrupted into Germany's British...
...charges that the Soviet Army is spurring production of war materials in Germany's Soviet zone. (Excerpts from a long bill of particulars: V-weapons are being made at Sömmerda near Erfurt, at Halle, at Nordhausen and in the South Harz; fuel for V-weapons at Leuna; aircraft at Gotha; machine-gun parts at Leipzig; tank chains at Plagwitz; Red Army uniforms at Plauen...