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...victory cannot be far," sang the somber chorus. "The world then becomes a Red star." The tumid cantata swelled across the famed campus; Communist Germany's goat-bearded Party Boss Walter Ulbricht smiled. It was the 550th anniversary of his home-town university, and what he had done to it made him proud. Since 1953, Leipzig University has been called Karl-Marx University, "model of the socialist type of university." Last week Leipzig, which took six centuries to build, was a model of how to kill a great institution in six years...
...join Leipzig's birthday celebration, which to them seemed only a wake. Leipzig's rector, a complaisant agriculturist named Georg Mayer who took over in 1948, seemed undismayed by the widening gap between his institution and those of West Germany. Further widening, said he as Party Boss Ulbricht beamed, "is an objective necessity...
...purge of Sänger rankled West German papers of widely varying political persuasions. "Scandalous," cried the non-partisan Protestant weekly Christ und Welt. "Our newspaper publishers who sit on the D.P.-A. board should realize that they are doing exactly what Ulbricht and his henchmen are doing in the East Zone." Said Düsseldorf's Jewish Allgemeine Wochenzeitung last week: "We wonder how young German democracy will react to this attack against basic principles." Said Das Freie Wort, official organ of the generally conservative Free Democratic Party: "We are alarmed at this attempt to subjugate an independent...
WHRB's March series, "German Report," will be rebroadcast during the last week of April. Many favorable comments were received praising the programs narrated by German born Horst Weise. The series presents voices of German leaders from Ulbricht to Hitler, interviews with citizens, recordings from German festivals and radio programs, and a clear anaysis of the present Berlin crisis...
When Red Meets Red. Flanked by the ever obsequious East German party boss, Walter Ulbricht, and other flunkies with high titles, Nikita bowled on to the fair, with police making way for him through the crowds (a process referred to in the Communist press as "indescribable scenes of friendship"). In a spirited tour he tossed off a glass of champagne at the French pavilion ("One cannot refuse such a pretty girl"), accepted a British...