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ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR Otto Fuerbringer...
...Vopos have fled to the West; these knew personally of another 250 Vopos who had been broken in rank or jailed. The Vopo army had failed the puppet regime and the Kremlin. "We alone would never have been able to defeat the provocateurs," confessed Quisling Premier Otto Grotewohl last week, in slavish thanks for the intervention of Red army troops and tanks...
Producers Herbert and Otto Preminger (who also directed) argue that to tone down the original would be to lose the play's outspoken freshness. They point out, further, that the play has run all over the U.S. without raising any moral protests, and that any number of current movies are far more tawdry, sensual and suggestive. The Moon Is Blue controversy may well turn out to be a major test of screen censorship. But whatever the outcome, it appears certain that all the hullabaloo will help The Moon Is Blue wind up in the black at the box office...
...everything was going much like the day before when thousands had marched through the streets in protest, and surprisingly forced Otto Grotewohl's Red government to rescind a work speedup decree. An odd, almost festive air made it even harder to believe that an unheard of thing was happening. Children on bicycles circled in front of the marchers. Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. An East German perched shakily...
...make peace with Bishop Otto Dibelius and the Evangelical Church, to which most of East Germany's 18 million people belong. In a formal pact, the Communists agreed to end persecution of church leaders and youth groups, to void or review jail terms handed out to about 20 pastors. Among other things, the Communists promised to recognize the church's right of free assembly, pay state subsidies to churches, return confiscated church property, and work out plans to restore religious lessons to Soviet zone classrooms...