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...Walter Ulbricht...
...propaganda for the Reds in East Germany, many a top German Communist spent the years of Hitler's ascendancy hidden away in hospitable Western countries. A few fled eastward to the purer atmosphere of Moscow. One of these was the recently appointed East Germany Party Boss Walter Ulbricht...
Last week New Broom Ulbricht began to sweep his party clean of the influence of those who had been contaminated by contact with Western freedom. Charging them generally with "lack of trust in the Soviet Union, in which no doubt is possible," he kicked six ranking Reds out of their jobs and out of the party. Ulbricht arrested all six on charges of conspiring with U.S. Relief Worker Noel Havilan Field, whom Ulbricht sneeringly described as "the American spy and merciful Samaritan." Field, a onetime Communist sympathizer who disappeared mysteriously in Central Europe last year (TIME, Oct. 24), has become...
Three weeks ago, East Germany's Communist Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht signed a treaty with Communist Poland, formally ceding German territory east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers to Poland (TIME, June 19). Last week Ulbricht signed another agreement-with Communist Czechoslovakia. The document proclaimed as "permanent and just" the postwar expulsion of 2,000,000 Germans from the Sudetenland-the border region of Czechoslovakia which Hitler seized in 1938 and which was returned to Czechoslovakia at the war's end. Henceforth, declared the agreement, neither country would have any territorial claim on the other...
...Germany have slyly promised the people that the Oder-Neisse territory would eventually be returned to Germany; Communists in Poland have insisted that the territory would stay with the Poles. Moscow itself kept mum-until last week. To Warsaw journeyed East Germany's Red boss, Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht, to return with a treaty in which the East German government formally ratified the cession of the German territory to Poland...