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...pathetic ignorance of the outside world his first seeds of disgust with Soviet Russia. But he still had a long way to travel before he was free. The journey took him across the face of Europe which he was helping to devastate, doing assorted party propaganda jobs, watching the Reichstag fire and the Soviet purges from afar, living in cheap hotels, and writing his first novel (a story about collectivism in a children's home, from which Koestler now prints excerpts for the first time; it sounds somewhat like The Rover Boys as rewritten by Howard Fast). He also...
Koestler has found out that in Britain the Reichstag fire trial has been safely over for 350 years (when the right man was convicted, name of Guy Fawkes). The pilgrim has been given to understand that inferiority complexes should be of more moderate size than cathedrals of -more on the lines of a semidetached villa which may have terra-cotta griffons on the roof but no real monsters within. It is a "cosy" doghouse, Koestler admits, and in gratitude affirms that this mild race lives "closer to the text of the invisible writing than any other." No one in Koestler...
...United States views the issuance of this false accusation immediately prior to the Tenth Inter-American Conference as a Communist effort to disrupt the work of this conference." In other words, the real plot in the situation was less of a plot than a scenario -a sort of Reichstag fire in reverse, masterminded in Moscow and designed to divert the attention of the forthcoming Inter-American Conference in Caracas from Guatemala as the Western Hemisphere's Red problem child...
Elected to the Reichstag years later, he spoke out against Hitler and was twice put into concentration camp by the Nazis. When he got out he took refuge in London (where he learned his fluent and colorful English), then skipped to Turkey, where he mastered the language and lectured on city government. At the end of World War II, Ernst Reuter was eking out a living in Ankara. He rushed home to Berlin...
...self-devourer is the Communist Party, which, from time to time, may be observed consuming its own entrails. Last week in East Germany, the hyena jaws were relishing a larger mouthful than usual: Franz Dahlem, No. 3 German Communist. Lorraine-born Comrade Dahlem, a Communist delegate to the German Reichstag from 1928 to 1932, was an International Brigade commissar in the Spanish Civil War. Interned by the French in 1939, he was turned over to the Gestapo three years later by the Vichy government and moved to a German concentration camp, from which he was liberated by the Red army...