Word: ulbricht
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...compound contains the homes of East Germany's Communist leaders, who like to stick together, and perhaps need to. In all the people's republic, it is excelled in luxury-and remoteness from the people-only by the 25-room residence of Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht at Schorfheide, 32 miles north of Berlin. Ulbricht's home, with its movie theater, glass-enclosed garden, private lake front, shooting range and volleyball courts, is often used by the party leadership as a secret conference site. Of both enclaves, West German Author Uwe Johnson (Two Views) says: "They have built...
...German neighbor is invariably an unfavorable one. Just as its Communist masters studiously remain remote from their subjects, East Germany itself remains remote not only from its German brothers but even from its socialist neighbors in Eastern Europe, who have no great affection either for Germans or for Walter Ulbricht's Stalinist style...
...writings, finding in them an existential kinship to that favored secular rebel with a cause, Albert Camus. During this anniversary year of the Reformation, there will be Luther-honoring services and seminars in Protestant churches around the globe -including several in East Germany, where the atheist Ulbricht regime officially regards Luther as a spiritual precursor of Marxism for his fight against imperial and Papal oppression...
West Germany, which still does not recognize Ulbricht's government diplomatically, is all in favor of stepping up trade. Economics Minister Karl Schiller last month urged West German businessmen to attend the Leipzig Fair. Bonn later adopted a Schiller proposal for expanded credit guarantees to West German firms trading with East Germany. Finally, Bonn has put off for a year-until June 30, 1968-the repayment deadline for some $100 million in trade deficits already owed by East Germany...
...matter how stubborn Ulbricht may seem, his country's westward trade drift is inevitable. At least 30% of East Germany's exports and imports are with Western nations-and of that, one-third is with West Germany. In the wee hours of the morning, even Walter Ulbricht must admit to himself that his country can only benefit by importing the vastly superior, much more varied products put out by the Germany on the other side of the Wall...