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Next day Chou paid gracious tribute-via the British Broadcasting Corp.-to the peace-loving people of Britain. He took off for a state visit to East Berlin, where puppet Red Premier Otto Grotewohl paid unctuous homage: "No power on earth can settle international problems without consulting the Great People's Republic of China." Chou took Grotewohl at his word; he surveyed one of Grotewohl's -and Russia's trickiest unresolved problems, then observed: "Geneva . . . will favorably influence the reunification of Germany...
...wheel was Otto John, the expert in charge of all of West Germany's counterespionage. His disappearance behind the Iron Curtain last week shook the foundations of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's West German government and jarred allied secret services from Berlin to Washington. And his motive for defection, or the device used to lure him across the frontier, provided the mystery of the week...
Single Mind. Otto John was a complicated man, caught in the confusions and counterloyalties of his time. One key to his character was his hatred of Naziism, a single-minded purpose which had forced him to lead a double life. During World War II, he served simultaneously in the Abwehr (Wehrmacht counterintelligence) and as a British secret-service contact. He was legal adviser to the Nazis' Lufthansa Airline and a secret anti-Nazi resistance worker. One memorable day ten years ago last week. Otto John landed at war-battered Tempelhof Airfield, where his brother, Hans, waited...
...asked one question: When? "It's tomorrow," said Hans softly, as they drove into Berlin. Next day came the bomb-shattering climax to years of plotting on Adolf Hitler's life by Otto, Hans and thousands of others. When that day ended in failure, Hans was in Gestapo custody and Otto was flying back to Madrid for his life. In Madrid, he dyed his blond hair black, went on to Portugal and to the British (who used him to interrogate important German prisoners). Brother Hans lingered under Nazi torture until the night of April 22, 1945. Then...
Last Night. Last week Otto John made a pilgrimage to Berlin for the roth anniversary of the July 20 uprising. He was a drinking man, and his round of reminiscences with other survivors was argumentative and well liquored. An acquaintance recalls considerable talk about Communism, and John, visibly annoyed, snorting: "You're all afraid of Communists. I'm afraid of Nazis." Those who saw him then thought that he was short tempered, nervous, almost in a daze. His wife said he was "mentally depressed." At the memorial ceremony in grisly Plötzensee Prison, he seemed haggard beyond...