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...West Germany last week, Staffer Rudi Treiber of Düsseldorf's Communist daily Freies Volk got a geography lesson. Under the headline PISTOLS AND BRASS KNUCKLES IN CLASSROOM, WEST BERLIN SCHOOLS ARE GANGSTER STUDIOS, Treiber had pointed to the school in the Pankow area of Berlin as a horrible example of just how the West brings up and trains its schoolchildren. In the Pankow school, he wrote, children have been found armed with brass knuckles and guns, while others write lewd poems which they circulate through an organization they call the "Bureau of Love...
...North Rhine-Westphalia press commission to curb their tongues or risk suspension, were trying out a bowdlerized brand of Newspeak this week. In place of standard party-line invective against the Bonn government and the Western Powers, editors were substituting strategically located five-dot blanks. Sample from Düsseldorf's Freies Volk: "The Prague District Organization of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia unanimously condemns the disgraceful action on the part of the representatives of the . . . . . Bonn Government which stands in the service of Truman's. . . . . and is trying to plunge the people of West Germany into...
...goods to the Soviets in 1949-50. Then, when Bonn clamped down on this trade, he switched westward, made $700,000 profit this year out of trading German steel for U.S. coal. Schlieker now claims to be a reformed character. To prove it, he recently gave Düsseldorf $475,000 for workers' housing. A British dossier concludes: "Schlieker is a ruthless opportunist, vain, ambitious and egotistical . . . With his ability, ruthlessness and adaptability, he seems destined for a leading role in Ruhr industry whatever form of organization it adopts in the future...
...Reds' plans became clear, border guards were reinforced to prevent further crossings. West Germany's police force of about 100,000 was issued carbines, tear-gas bombs and steel helmets, got busy building roadblocks on the approaches to target cities, notably Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen. Policemen careened through the streets, sirens screaming, arrested 500 known Communist leaders as a preventive measure. The British called their Fourth Guards Brigade back from maneuvers to stand by for disorders in the Ruhr...
...gathered to drink beer. Promptly, 200 German riot squadsmen rushed to the scene, arrested seven Communists-and everyone went back to his beer. That was the pattern in most of Western Germany. Police tirelessly quenched "peace bonfires," confiscated leaflets and arrested another 1,000 Communists. In Düsseldorf, a few days before, the British had requisitioned the Communists' brand-new, $500,000 headquarters building to house British troops; when the Reds refused to move out, British troopers and German police moved in and took over the building in a room-to-room battle...