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...Christian Democrats had expected at best to run up a narrow majority over the Social Democrats and the crazy quilt of splinter parties competing for the 484 seats in the Bundestag. Instead, they won a smashing victory, and the right to govern Germany for four more years. In district after district, the Socialists lost strength and Adenauer's C.D.U. gained. Every one of the Communists' 14 seats in the Bundestag-including that of Party Boss Max Reimann-was jerked away from them. The neo-Nazi German Reich Party did even worse than the Communists...
...bitterness of the disillusioned sabras was increased by the immigrants from Europe's cities, with their preference for selling ice cream at street-corner stalls to clearing rocks from the hillside. Splinter groups began to form: the intellectual "Canaanites" who urged severing all relations with non-Israeli Jews and wrote anti-religious poems; the would-be expatriates who wanted to leave the country and live among non-Jews; the aggressive nationalists who sneered at the "spinelessness" of those who had marched unresisting into Hitler's gas chambers...
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...
Romulo, though his campaign had not caught fire, was not abandoning his own four-month-old splinter political party: it will be in a coalition with Magsaysay's Nacionalistas, and if the coalition wins, will share in the spoils (presumably Romulo would be reappointed Ambassador to the U.S.). Said Romulo: "They say a wise captain doesn't take his ship through a storm, but makes a detour. I am making a detour...
...extreme left: Palmiro Togliatti's Communists, Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling "Socialists" and their splinter-party allies. Strength at the last election: 31% (but believed by the experts to have gained some strength since...