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...Socialists (SPD) are West Germany's second largest party. They condemn Adenauer as a U.S. puppet and call him "Chancellor of the Allies"; they reject EDC as likely to delay German unity, but when the chips are down, they stand squarely with the West. The Socialists polled 7,000,000 votes in the 1949 election. This time they hope to do better, yet in their speeches at their rallies, something big is missing. It is the great voice and flashing eye of the late Kurt Schumacher (TIME, June 9, 1952), the only man in postwar Germany who could measure...
Politics. When the East-German puppet government proposed a discussion of all-German elections, Konrad Adenauer's government (to the applause of even its Socialist opponents) dismissed the bid in a single blistering sentence: "One does not negotiate with marionettes...
When the Communists took over China, they thought they knew just what to do with the country's some 3,500,000 Roman Catholics: set up an "independent" (i.e., puppet) Catholic church, and switch them in. For more than a year it has been clear to the Communists that the plan is not working. Latest reports from refugees in Hong Kong: during the last two months Communist propaganda in such cities as Shanghai has barely mentioned the independent church; instead, it is plugging a new slogan-"Love country, love church, purge imperialists...
Looking on, the Peking radio betrayed something akin to sympathy for the U.S. predicament. It no longer called Rhee a U.S. puppet, and even for the first time spoke of the U.S. as a democratic nation. Rhee's actions, said Peking in a July 4 broadcast, constitute "an insult to the spirit of independence and democracy of the American people and their ancestor, Washington." If these nosegays are any index, the Reds are as anxious for a truce as ever - perhaps more...
...Vopos have fled to the West; these knew personally of another 250 Vopos who had been broken in rank or jailed. The Vopo army had failed the puppet regime and the Kremlin. "We alone would never have been able to defeat the provocateurs," confessed Quisling Premier Otto Grotewohl last week, in slavish thanks for the intervention of Red army troops and tanks...