Word: pieck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western sector of Berlin, the city assembly did some strenuous housecleaning. First they voted to sweep the name of Wilhelm Pieck, pink-faced boss of the city's Reds, from the roll of its honorary citizens. Then they went to work on some moldering skeletons in the back closets. Also wiped from the honor roll: Hitler, Goebbels and Göring. Second-Reich President Paul von Hindenburg survived...
...some areas of the world, laughter is dangerous. Several Germans were recently arrested in the Soviet zone of Germany after movie theater audiences had guffawed at (1) a film purporting to show Soviet ships unloading food for Germany; (2) newsreel pictures of barrel-bellied Wilhelm Pieck, German Communist boss, who reminds many of his compatriots of the late Hermann Goring. But whether laughter was the privilege of the free or the furtive solace of the oppressed, it continued as always to lighten man's burden...
Early in the week, portly, rosy-cheeked Veteran Communist Wilhelm Pieck called the signals for the Reds at a meeting of party functionaries in the Russian sector's Friedrichsstadt Palace. He confessed that the airlift was hurting the Red cause. Said Pieck: "There is no doubt that it has had a certain effect on the needy masses." Pieck cried for direct action against the uncompromisingly anti-Communist city government: "Fellow workers! You must frustrate a reactionary plot. Urgently we call on the people of Berlin to settle their score with . . . parties in the city government . . . We are sure...
...week's first Red mob-some 4,000 strong-marched on the city assembly, only to find that the assembly had called off its meeting after ample warning of Pieck's play...
...World So Fair." Over soggy Berlin, the roar of the planes continued. The City Assembly heard it when, led by tough little Mayoress Louise Schroeder, it defied the Russians and sent an appeal for intervention to the U.N. Communist Boss Wilhelm Pieck heard it when he told party leaders that they must fight the "infection" of diversionist elements. "In the last three weeks," cried Pieck, "you have lost all the popularity you have gained in the last three years." And the children heard the sound, and feared it, for it stirred memories of bombings not so long ago-children like...