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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...
...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...
News reached the U.S. last week of a speech which may well be a clue to Communism's mood. German Communist Boss Wiihelm Pieck recently told 200 "Socia11st Unity" Party workers: "We are losing one position after another to the reactionaries. We put on brilliant parades, but the election results are the opposite. We have examples of opportunist backsliding and degeneracy in our party. [Many Communists] can cite Lenin, Marx and Engels, but they cannot cope with practical politics ... A belief has awakened in the masses that ... we are on the downward path...
Said Communist Boss Wilhelm Pieck: "SED will not have the majority in Berlin." If his prediction is right, Russia is likely to abandon the party, and party leaders know it. Last week, a U.S. newsman, roaming through SED's Berlin headquarters, ran into fat, pink Max Fechner, leading Sedist candidate...
This functional friendliness was not the Russians' only weapon. They also put on direct pressure for a merger of the Socialist and Communist parties. Last week, Communist Chairman Wilhelm Pieck set the date: "before May." Fusion would virtually assure a leftwing election victory, solidify Communist control of the Soviet zone...