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East German Communist leaders sensed that shrinking feeling. Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht hastily summoned party leaders of East Berlin. After 72 hours of "remorseless criticism," they issued a melancholy manifesto: "Fulfillment of the Five-Year Plan is handicapped by red tape, a reactionary attitude towards what is new, fear of responsibility, lack of discipline, laziness . . . There has developed a serious estrangement between party functionaries and the masses." Then Ulbricht announced ominously that new elections "on all levels of the party apparatus" will be held within a month...
...minor Red letter day celebrations in satellite countries unless he has good reason. Also present: Marshal Georgi Zhukov, recalled from the limbo to which he had been banished in 1946; Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, boss of Poland's armed forces (a week ago reported assassinated); Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht of East Germany, the top German Communist; Polish President Boleslaw Bierut and enough deputy premiers from Albania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Outer Mongolia, Hungary and Rumania to fill several police vans...
...Stalin's communizers of East Germany had learned from bitter experience that Stalin might be right. After nearly five years of trying to saddle their cow, they seemed to be having more trouble than ever. Last week Party Boss Walter Ulbricht decreed that East Germany's Socialist Unity Party (SED) would have to be purged. He announced that 20,000 party officials, working from now until July in 4,000 teams of five, would screen the SED's 1,600,000 card holders. The 20,000 would be supervised by 1,000 of the party...
...Eastern Zone Socialists. For a while, the Communists honored their promise of biparty "parity." Then, one by .one, nearly all the Socialist leaders were eased out. Now the rank & file Socialists who have not been fully converted to Communism will have to go too. SED card holders, announced Ulbricht, will be investigated "regarding all phases of their lives." They must be "true workers," must know Marx & Lenin by the numbers, must above all be devoted to the interests of the Soviet Union-no "morally tainted elements or careerists" will be tolerated. All party cards will be turned...
...Ulbricht & Co. predict that they will oust 25% of the party's functionaries, 10% of its rank & file members, be left with a tighter, handier Communist Party. But if Stalin knew what he was talking about, the saddle was still likely...