Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respected German Socialist leaders, Carlo Schmid and Fritz Erler, returned from Moscow last week, having learned for all their "flexibility," that the Russians had their own definitions of "the possibilities of reducing tensions." Schmid and Erler talked for three hours with Khrushchev. Afterwards, Khrushchev indicated that Socialists might be easier to get along with than Konrad Adenauer. But Socialist hints that they would be willing to take West Germany out of NATO got no response from Khrushchev. Waving a stubby finger at the two Socialists, he said bluntly: "Let's be honest. No one really wants German reunification...
Incredibly, 24 hours after their mission returned from Moscow, West German Socialists proclaimed anew their program for winning German reunification by military concessions. But there were signs that a disillusioned realism was settling over the German Socialist leadership...
Before 50 people crowded into the back room of a corner beer hall in Communist East Berlin, a Socialist from West Berlin made a violently anti-Communist speech last week. "The U.S.S.R. has not given up its hope to rule the world," said Socialist Deputy Chairman Josef Braun. "The occupation rights of our Western friends in Berlin are our only protection. We must remain firm." An owlish man in the audience rose to criticize West Germany's Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer for talking to Nikita Khrushchev fortnight ago. "It's wrong to go hat in hand to aggressors...
That such kind of talk could be heard in East Berlin is one of the continuing anomalies of the original four-power agreement made almost 14 years ago, which divided the city into east and west sectors. The Socialist Party is banned in East Germany itself, but it operates in East Berlin, just as the Communists are allowed to operate in West Berlin, where last December they got 1.9% of the vote. But the East Berlin Communists do all they can to frustrate the 8,000 registered Socialists in their midst...
...Socialists are not allowed to publish a newspaper, and have a hard time recruiting new members. Kurt Neubauer, perhaps the ablest of their leaders-who is a member of the West German Bundestag-operates out of an office in two stove-heated rooms on the ground floor of an old apartment house in East Berlin. A Socialist mass meeting that he got Communist permission to hold back in 1954 was such a success that the People's Police have since rejected applications for anything bigger than back-room rallies. And though the party is officially tolerated, members have been...