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...Schumacher's Social Democrats (the SPD) control nearly a third of the Bundestag, have the support of 28 newspapers, command the voting allegiance of most of West Germany's 6,000,000 trade unionists, and boast 650,000 dues-paying regulars. Schumacher has built up a vast Socialist intelligence service. Through the big Socialist following in East Germany, he commands the best intelligence available of what the Russians and German Reds are up to. The U.S. and British occupation officials have found it invaluable...
...Schumacher, with his violent stand against West German cooperation with the West, against West German rearmament for defense, against the Schuman Plan, speaks for an ever-growing segment of the German people-probably far more than any other German politician. In 1949 his SPD Party won 131 Bundestag seats against 139 won by Adenauer's Christian Democrats. If a federal election were held now, Schumacher's would probably become the largest party in the Bundestag, supported by the votes of at least 7,500,000 Germans. If East and West Germany were united (as Schumacher keeps demanding...