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...issue in Berlin's quadripartite municipal elections had been clearly drawn between the Russian-backed SED (Socialist Unity Party) and three other parties (Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and Liberals) which had U.S.British sympathy. The SED was crushingly beaten...
...election's most dramatic conflict was between the SED and the Social Democrats. On the surface they were both Socialist workingmen's parties (said one cynical Berlin-voter: "Don't vote for either of them, they both know what they want. Vote CDU or LDP, they don't know what they want and won't bother...
...gulf between SED and the Social Democrats is essentially the same deep gulf that divides all of Europe. Last year, a large segment of the Social Democratic Party had refused to merge with the Communists in the formation of the Russian-sponsored SED. Now, in a scrupulously fair and orderly election (there were watchers from all four parties at the polls and Allied Kommandatura control teams cruised through the city), the Social Democratic Party managed to get more than twice as many votes as SED. Even the Sedists' desperate last minute campaign stunts, including a performance of Beethoven...
Social Democrats first (with about 48.8% of the total votes cast), Christian Democrats second 22.2%), SED third 19.7%) and Liberals, the only party which advocates a free-enterprise economy, fourth...
Said Communist Boss Wilhelm Pieck: "SED will not have the majority in Berlin." If his prediction is right, Russia is likely to abandon the party, and party leaders know it. Last week, a U.S. newsman, roaming through SED's Berlin headquarters, ran into fat, pink Max Fechner, leading Sedist candidate...