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Distributing U.S. food packets to hungry East Germans was Reuter's happiest chore. "I am glad," he told his people, "that for once we can do something except just talk...
Ivan, Scram. Impatient with what he called "the old, fearful, pussyfooting non-combatants garbed in the robes of diplomatic wisdom," Reuter jeered at the Russians and at the people who would bend before them. "What are the Soviets after?" he asked sarcastically. "What is the significance of the third sentence in the second paragraph of some editorial in a propaganda sheet steered from Moscow? This wholly unimaginative, enfeebled attitude of people who stare like rabbits at a snake, and wait to be devoured-this just fills the Soviets with contempt...
Long before it was fashionable, the Socialist mayor of Berlin was urging the West to get tough with the Communists. "They will become unbelievably agreeable when the West begins to act," he said. Reuter's idea of action was to rearm Germany within a European framework, then launch a "political offensive to get the Soviets peacefully out of Europe." "Why should only the Soviets say, "Yank, go home!' " he demanded. "Why don't we all start saying 'Ivan, scram...
Candles Behind the Curtain. When the Reds once threatened a May Day rally in West Berlin, Reuter called out half a million anti-Communist workers, and the Reds shied off. When the June 17 riots exploded in East Berlin, he optimistically hailed them as "the beginning of the end of the East Berlin regime...
Last week in Berlin there were candles for Ernst Reuter on both sides of the Brandenburger Tor. His body lay on a catafalque in front of his beloved Rat-haus. The coffin was draped in the Berlin flag and surmounted by his black beret. All one day and all that night, tens of thousands of Berliners filed past. Among them were many East Berliners, clutching their free food parcels. "He was our Reuter too," said one East zone woman. Her husband could only mutter: "What will...