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Ever since the flare-up in Hungary, trim-whiskered Walter Ulbricht, Communist boss of East Germany, has been like a cat on the hot tin roof of satellite unrest. Two weeks ago the jumpy Ulbricht, unable to stand the heat any longer, alerted the Communist fire department. In a speech before the East German Socialist Unity (Communist) Party Central Committee, he detailed a nefarious plot to overthrow the regime, and named as the chief incendiary a youthful (34) professor and editor named Wolfgang Harich. It was the first time that Ulbricht has acknowledged renewed trouble in East Germany...
...conclave, those loyal East German boys, Premier Grotewohl and First Party Secretary Ulbricht, were rewarded with a treaty giving them the right to know how many Soviet divisions were stationed on their soil. The lesser fry-Bulgaria's Zhivkov, Rumania's Gheorghiu-Dej, Czechoslovakia's Novotny and even little Kadar from Hungary-got encouraging pats on the back. There were vast banquets at the Kremlin, a huge amount of congratulatory speechmaking and communiques galore...
...opportunity came in the early 19505, when Communism's solid front swayed and bent under the impact of the treason trials of Hungary's Laszlo Rajk, Czechoslovakia's Rudolf Slansky and the American Noel Field. Charging his rival with "political blindness" in having once befriended Field. Ulbricht seized Dahlem in May 1953. At first Dahlem was jailed, then sent to an East German hospital for observation. Dahlem's fortune ebbed further in 1954 when his son Robert fled to the West. Dahlem was ordered to the Soviet Union for a "rest." Since that time, the face...
Last week, in an hour-long speech well larded with what Germany's anti-Communists call Partei Chinesisch (party Chinese), East Germany's Party Boss Walter Ulbricht got around to announcing the new look in East German Communism. The Ulbricht speech included the now mandatory apology to Tito, a helping of discreet selfcriticism, and the rehabilitation of a few old victims. The first of these (who may not have been Ulbricht's own choice) was his old rival, Franz Dahlem. "The conditions under which the investigation of Comrade Dahlem was conducted," said Ulbricht, "have ceased to exist...
...that Ulbricht counts on the fact that Dahlem, who suffers from a heart ailment, appears to have aged considerably. But it remains a fact that Dahlem would be a natural choice for party leadership should the Russians try to reorganize East German Communism without unpopular Walter Ulbricht...