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...first proposal to bring together Germany and her Western neighbors, Schumacher replied: "No! to all [such] conservative, clerical, capitalist, cartelist attempts." The Schuman Plan is a near-relative of a proposal Kurt Schumacher has long urged, "socialized integration" of Western Europe's industry, but Schumacher issued a steely nein to the Schuman Plan because there was no socialism in it. "Federation," he argued, "must not be confused with a syndicate of private interests...
Germany's Russian-zone Communists this week staged one of the most successful Hitler-style ja elections in history. Citizens were free to vote either ja or nein to a single list of candidates. They were free to vote out in the open where Communist checkers could see them, or to go into a polling booth. Catch was that Communist election workers noted the names of all who used the polling booths. Fearing Communist reprisals, nearly all East Germans voted out in the open and voted...
...results were not surprising. Less than 24 hours after the election, the Soviet East-zone radio announced that of 12,331,905 eligible to vote, 98.4% cast their ballot. Of these, 12,088,745 voted for the official list and only 35,544 voted nein...
From the businessmen came shouts of "nein, nein." Replied McCloy sharply: "Well, anyway, U.S. taxes are much higher than before because of German aggression...
...their first major free election since 1933 with a mixed sense of duty and fatalism. In Fechenheim, near Frankfurt, a worn-looking war widow puzzled over her ballot. An election official told an American bystander: "Under Hitler, the choice was simpler-each ballot had a big Ja and small Nein." A young man said: "The trouble is we do not really know what we are voting for. All the politicians talk about is what is wrong with the other parties and with the Allies. No one tells us how his party can end unemployment, how he can get us houses...