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...Communist as he had been an anti-Nazi, Schumacher said no to every statesmanlike gesture made in postwar Europe-the Schuman Plan, NATO, West Germany's joining the European Defense Community. Even in his own party he became dictatorial and sour, antagonized such figures as witty, courageous Ernst Reuter, West Berlin's mayor, who thought Schumacher's opposition to the West was dangerous. Schumacher earned the name Herr Nein...
...notice any nervousness?" asked West Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter proudly. If there was any last week among West Berlin's besieged 2,000,000 it was not apparent...
...danger for us lies not here," tough-minded Mayor Reuter told West Berliners last week, "but it lies in the fact that outside Berlin, opinion might gain ground that Berlin is endangered, and there no longer is any use supporting...
Grotewohl went over to the Reds, and got his reward: today he is the captive Premier of Communist East Germany. But he took only a tiny splinter of Socialists with him. Schumacher and Ernst Reuter, now the strong-minded Socialist mayor of West Berlin, stood their ground. As much as the allied airlift of 1948-49, that Socialist resistance saved West Berlin for democracy. "No matter what we think of Schumacher now," a U.S. official confessed last week, "we will gladly pay him tribute for having been right about the Russians at a time when we were dead wrong...
...party. He is the SPD -boss, organizer, judge, theoretician, tactician and strategist. For questioning some of Schumacher's violent stands, three of the strongest and, to the West, most friendly Socialists in Germany have been consigned to Schumacher's limbo. They are called "the three mayors"-Ernst Reuter of West Berlin, Wilhelm Kaisen of Bremen and Max Brauer of Hamburg, a onetime U.S. citizen...