Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stooges. When Communist pressure le up a little in 1947, the three men in charge of the choir-Werner Schueck, its founder and leader, Werner Niebisch, publicity director, and Business Manager Ludwig Pulst-managed to get interzonal passes for a West German tour. But there was a condition: Niebisch had to agree to work as a spy for the Russians. Niebisch's work on the Western tour apparently did not satisfy the MVD. Once back in Dresden, the singers were accused by Communist papers of being Western spies; they found their food rations reduced, their wage taxes raised...
...concert. At week's end, three more choir members, all minors, had gone back to Dresden. Also back in Dresden was Business Manager Pulst, about whom Choir-Leaders Schueck and Niebisch had a sharp suspicion: he was a Soviet agent, they thought, had deliberately failed to get West German bookings for the choir, had engineered the arrest of the two wives. The rest of the choir was flown to Frankfurt, where they will give a thanksgiving concert, train for a foreign tour. Standing in the bright sun at Frankfurt airport one of the girls said: "At last...
...months, East German Communists had militantly whooped up a Whitsunday youth march on West Berlin. The Reds had proclaimed that, on May 28, half-a-million members of the Communist-run FDJ (Freie Deutsche Jugend) would converge on Berlin's Western sectors in military formation. Their slogan: "Forward-Berlin Must Be Ours!" In Meissen, a Communist speaker had added a warlike warning. Said he: "When the first shot is fired, that will be the signal for the storming of Berlin...
...German youth . . . wants to be able to dance and sing, free from care . . . Youth, with blue flags, merry songs and smiling eyes . . . will move through the streets of the capital. . . Who, dear friends [i.e., in West Berlin], is more welcome to you-peaceful German youth, or the atomic bombs of American rear-guard generals...
Meanwhile, out in the Soviet zone, FDJ auxiliary units scrounged busily to supply uniforms (blue shirts, black trousers) for the Whitsunday marchers. Harassed farmers were peremptorily ordered to provide extra travel rations. The East German Finance Ministry announced that the marchers were eligible for special Whitsuntide death and accident insurance. In Saxony, Communist youth leaders, many of whom had learned their trade as Hitler youth, instructed their new charges in street-fighting tactics...