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Signal honors came last week to Wilhelm Pieck, the little white-haired, pink-cheeked old (73) boss of German Communism. They came because, after the summer's respite, the Russians were opening a new, rougher phase in the battle for Germany...
Father Unity. Pieck had helped found the German Communist Party in 1919, has been a faithful party wheelhorse ever since. When Hitler came to power, he found a home-away-from-home in Moscow. While Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, at Yalta, discussed Germany's future with their ally Stalin, Pieck was busy making speeches to German P.W.s in Russia, forming the nucleus of a future German Communist regime. When the Red Army moved into Berlin, Pieck was flown into the city by special Russian plane. He had work to do there...
...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...
...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...