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...very polite. "Highly esteemed President," wrote East German Boss Wilhelm Pieck last week to spry old Theodor Heuss of West Germany, "I approach you at a time of great import ... I propose ... a meeting to discuss how the road can be smoothed for the convening of all-German consultations to bring about the peaceful reunification of Germany...
...from smoothing the road, of course, Moscow's orders to Stooge Pieck were to roll huge stones in the way, unless the West accepted the East's unacceptable terms. President Heuss replied, not quite so gently, "The sincerity of your proposal is questionable." That Heuss could answer so quickly and firmly was a sign that West Germans had come to see the Red proposal for what it is: a bogus offer of unity, subject to Russian conditions, and designed solely to disrupt West German rearmament. West Germans, most of whom really do want a unified Germany, were looking...
While the Allied High Commissioners and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer dickered, Soviet puppets kept new sideshows going in East Germany. Wilhelm Pieck, East German President, returned from six weeks in Moscow. East Germany took honey, soap and rayon off the ration list, and Propaganda Boss Gerhart Eisler cooed his "deep regrets" that West Germans wouldn't be able to enjoy the same privileges until unification-though the fact is that such rations are no problem in West Germany. East German Premier Otto Grotewohl announced an amnesty for 20,000 prisoners (crimes unspecified, presumably political...
...heavily-armed young toughs of the East German People's Police. Garbed in their national costumes, 25,000 visiting Reds-including two Irishmen, ten Americans and one lonely New Zealander-joined with 100,000 young Germans in a cheering demonstration. In a welcoming speech, East German President Wilhelm Pieck brought to mind similar occasions under the Nazis, when he hailed "the great Fuhrer [Stalin] who gives the foremost example in the world fight...
...Communists sanctioned the meeting of the East and West Germans-"Germans at one table," was their slogan-in the hope of promoting themselves as the champions of German unity. East German President Wilhelm Pieck in person attended the opening session in East Berlin's graceful Gothic Marienkirche (he tried to slip in through the center portal usually reserved for brides, bishops and, in the old days, the Kaiser, but was hurriedly eased over to a side door...