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From Peking to Berlin the rulers of the Communist world dutifully chorused delight at Khrushchev's coup. But some among them did so with an uncontrollable nervous quaver. In East Germany a spokesman for heavy-handed Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht edgily scoffed at journalistic speculation that the changes in Moscow might inspire "similar revisions" in East German leadership. In Hungary the Budapest radio feared that "certain revisionist circles" might try to take advantage of the situation and said that "necessary firmness must be displayed." Poland's Gomulka and Yugoslavia's Tito were plainly pleased: their "many roads...
...campus to discuss the Hungarian situation, clandestine leaflets came floating down from the rooftops. WE DEMAND MORE THOROUGH TRAINING WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SOCIETY FOR SPORT AND TECHNOLOGY, proclaimed a big black headline. Underneath in small type was a tag line calculated to chill the nervous Ulbricht: Because the example of Hungary has shown us that...
...Ulbricht dared not crack down too hard on the students. Instead, he pinned the rap on Wolfgang Harich, charging that the young teacher had acted under the influence of "reactionaries" in Hungary and Poland. A handsome, soft-looking youngster in Berlin's World War II "high society," Harich had studied philosophy, turned Buddhist under the influence of Japanese embassy friends, and later, when the draft caught up with him, deserted the German army. A friendly general saved him from being shot, and he turned Roman Catholic. After the Russians came, he switched to Marxism, was made lecturer in historical...
Arrested last November, he has nothing apparent in his record to justify Ulbricht's charge. In the calculated Communist view, however, Harich's record probably enhanced his merit as a scapegoat: there is nothing about it that would make him a martyr in student eyes, or even a symbol of resistance for the West...
While the regime stalled on a trial for Harich, the uncoordinated student discontent showed signs of quieting down. There were no real indications that Boss Ulbricht's house was on fire, but his reaction to a few whiffs of smoke betrayed the frightened uncertainty with which he rules his people...