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Kurt Schumacher's deputy at Bonn, burly Carlo Schmid, probably the ablest political leader in West Germany, told me: "Whether any of us likes it or not, one thing is true in Europe today-its future depends on the workers of Germany. Russia cannot win them yet-but the West can lose them ... If they should ever desert the West and slide into Bolshevism, then you need no longer worry about what France's workers will do. Then you can have all the Atlantic pacts you can write. Stalin will need no Molotov or Vishinsky, no Cominform...
...opening ceremonies over, the assembly got down to business in the shiny, modern auditorium of Bonn's Pedagogical Institute. What followed was as refreshing an exhibition of parliamentary vigor as Europe had had in years. Up rose portly Socialist Carlo Schmid to pledge his party's cooperation with the Christian Democrats (who hold a slight majority). In the past, the Social Democrats had fought the Christian Democrats tooth & nail in every election; but the Berlin airlift had galvanized both parties into common enthusiasm and common sense...
...applause greeting Schmid's announcement was cut short by long, lean Max Reimann, one of the two Communists elected to the assembly. His suit, shirt and tie were a symphony in grey. From a pink sheet of paper he read: "I wish to put forward this resolution: It is resolved that this assembly halt its deliberations on a separate West German constitution and disband immediately. This assembly violates the agreements of Yalta and Potsdam...
...Walter E. Albrecht Jr. '49, Vivian, Thomas S. Langner '45, Thomas C. Fischer '46, John D. Kendall '45, Edward Prince '49, and James D. Dodge '44. Other contemporary Dunces are John B. Lister '50, James M. Robbins '48, John W. Wade '49, J. Peter Winkelstein '49, Thomas M. A. Schmid '49, Harry F. Booth '48, and Arthur S. Biddle...
...Democrats settled on John Stanley Rice, former Air Forces colonel, a mild, well-to-do Gettysburg apple grower whose political star had never risen higher than the state Senate. For Secretary of Internal Affairs they found Colonel Rice a G.I. running mate: Philadelphia's blind hero Al Schmid, former Marine sergeant...