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...wing of the party, calling itself the Reformists, realizes the danger and is battling the old-guard bureaucrats for control. Reformist Chief Heinrich Al-bertz, a Protestant pastor and minister in the Lower Saxony Cabinet, would junk the old Marxist catch phrases, and pattern the SPD roughly after the British Labor Party. Albertz argues: "We have good ideas; we are on the right road, but we are unable to speak to the people in their own language. The policy of the present party has as little to do with Marxism as Copernicus does to the 20th century...
ADENAUER'S COALITION: C.D.U (Christian Democrats) 145 FDP (Free Democrats) 51 DP (German Party) 20 216 AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT: SPD (Socialists) 130 FU (Bavarians and Pacifists) 18 BHE (Refugees) 3 KPD (Communists) 14 Splinter parties 21 186 Most of the opposition "splinter parties" will be massacred at the polls by the "5% rule," which invalidates all groups winning less than that much of the total vote. The Communists are no danger at all: this time they too may fail to get 5%. Unlike other European nations, West Germany has no big Communist Party, for the reality is too near...
...Socialists (SPD) are West Germany's second largest party. They condemn Adenauer as a U.S. puppet and call him "Chancellor of the Allies"; they reject EDC as likely to delay German unity, but when the chips are down, they stand squarely with the West. The Socialists polled 7,000,000 votes in the 1949 election. This time they hope to do better, yet in their speeches at their rallies, something big is missing. It is the great voice and flashing eye of the late Kurt Schumacher (TIME, June 9, 1952), the only man in postwar Germany who could measure...
...huge, brooding portrait of the late Kurt Schumacher looked down last week from the speaker's stand on the convention of West Germany's Social Democratic Party at Dortmund. Not far from the assembly room the SPD had rigged up a small shrine to the dead leader. The implacable spirit of Schumacher still dominated the country's second largest party. In the keynote address, Schumacher's chief deputy, Erich Ollenhauer, repeated Schumacher's old neins: the Socialists still stood against a peace treaty with the Western powers, against the Schunian Plan, against anything that took...
Schumacher's iron hand brooks no opposition in his own 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...