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Domination by Default. That every thing went so smoothly was a tribute to the work of a hard-bitten organizer-Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner, 55, an ex-Communist who is the Socialists' organization boss. For months he had administered what he calls Seelenmassage (soul massage) to the party bosses in every region of the nation, arguing, cajoling, and elbowing them into fully accepting the new party line that began taking shape more than four years ago. Now, more than any other man, Wehner was in command of West Germany's oldest (founded 1863) and biggest (650,000 dues...
...possible, as much planning as necessary." Three weeks ago -a major post-summit switch-they abandoned their long insistence that Germany might strike a bargain with the Russians, giving up NATO membership in exchange for a unified (if neutralized) Germany. Said the party's Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner: "Like the Christian Democrats' position, the Socialist position is that the European pact system and NATO must serve as a basis for any foreign-policy and reunification efforts." Last week the party's seven-man electoral strategy committee, further revising the party's face, picked Berlin...
...seven-man commission appointed to find a candidate and a program to lead the Social Democrats to victory in 1961, party moderates won all the places. Conspicuously left off was Deputy Party Chairman Herbert Wehner, a onetime Communist agitator who was the man most responsible for Ollenhauer's luckless flirtation with Khrushchev. The likeliest candidate to lead the party is Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid, 62. Convivial, mellow-voiced Carlo Schmid is by all odds the most articulate Social Democrat advocate of broadening the party's middle-class appeal. He was once an officer in Hitler...
...Mendès-France (TIME, Nov. 1). The Paris accords came first, and at once the Socialists weighed in with the made-in-Moscow argument that they have chosen to regard as their own: ratification of rearmament means the end of all hope of German reunification. Ex-Communist Herbert Wehner, 48, mastermind of the Socialist left wing (TIME, Feb. 28), talked up a Geneva-style conference at which the West could trade German rearmament for German reunification-assuming that the Russians might be so minded. He made much ado about "automatic consequences," suggesting casuistically that a vote in the West...
Socialist after Socialist harped on Wehner's theme, which stirs deep passions in Germany and is well suited to a party that is searching for an emotional issue, and being in opposition, need not worry about having to carry out what it advocates. A Berlin Socialist argued for Bündnisfreiheit (freedom from alliances...