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Communist prestige was at low ebb in Western Germany. Yet in Düsseldorf last week a grinning, pinch-faced Stalinist with silver-grey hair was carried like a hero on the shoulders of a cheering, surging mob. He was Max Reimann, Communist boss of Western Germany...
Early this month, 5,000 Reds had jammed Düsseldorf's Rheinhalle for an anniversary rally. Reimann, an able rab-blerouser, harangued them for 2½ hours. He denounced the Ruhr statute as a means to "dismember the heart of Germany and make dollar slaves of German workers." He shouted: "German politicians who today cooperate with the occupation forces under the Ruhr statute should not be surprised if they are considered quislings by the German nation." Then Reimann added that those who cooperate "may one day have to face reprisals...
Reluctant Witnesses. The British authorities could not tolerate this sort of intimidation. They decided to bring Reimann to trial for "encouraging discrimination against Germans who cooperate with the Allies." But they failed to police Düsseldorf's courthouse adequately and the Reds went into their act; they turned the hearing itself into a propaganda demonstration...
...hundred of them-pimply youths, tough thugs, wild-eyed women-poured into the courthouse lobby and up the stairway and massed outside the courtroom. When Reimann appeared they howled an ovation. "Do your best, Max!" said a pink, pudgy hausfrau: "Just the way it was with Hitler-first he was sentenced to jail, then he became our Führer. I wonder if this won't turn out the same...
...Reimann broke in once more: "Free...