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...wife Martha and a pressagent. Socialist campaign slogans consisted for the most part of scare posters designed to show that Adenauer was leading Germany to atomic war. "Who Chooses CDU Risks Atom Death!" shrieked one Socialist poster. In Bremen, CDU workers countered with posters that said bitingly: "Who Chooses SPD Chooses Ollenhauer." Nikita Khrushchev had done Adenauer the great favor of pointing out, two weeks ago in Berlin, that Russia was determined to keep Germany divided, thereby destroying Ollen-hauer's thesis that it was der Alte's obduracy that prevented reunification...
...Left & Right. Since Schumacher's death, a band of progressive reformers on the Socialist right wing have sought to change the party's ways. Led by able, French-born Professor Carlo Schmid, a potbellied b&n vivant, the reformers want the SPD to junk 1) its aging bureaucrats, and 2) its Marxist jargon. The party, says Schmid, should move to the right so as to attract the votes of small shopkeepers and professional...
...Leader Ollenhauer, a good-natured ineffectual, has been increasingly mesmerized by the party's extreme left wing. The leading light on the left is pipe-smoking Herbert Wehner, 48, a devious, rambunctious orator and former Communist (1927-43). Wehner prefers to move quietly in the background of the SPD, whispering his neutralist notions into Ollenhauer's hospitable ear, bombarding the party executive with confidential memos...
Wehner sees no hope of the Socialists winning an election until the predominantly Protestant and presumed-to-be Socialist voters of East Germany can vote for the SPD. To get those votes, and with them German unity, Wehner is willing to offer the Soviet Union almost any price, including a totally-militarily, politically and economically-neutralized Germany...
Western diplomats are candid in their distrust of Herbert Wehner, and of the interests he serves. They see him as an evil grey eminence in the SPD. But as the shrill Socialist campaign against the Paris accords spread across Germany last week, there could be little doubt that the counsels of Herbert Wehner are in the ascendant in the party hierarchy...