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Defeat for Adenauer would be regarded in Moscow as a major tactical gain. In Germany, it might easily lead to the kind of governmental chaos that emasculated the Weimar Republic...
Konrad Adenauer's virtue is that he recognizes, and knows how to deal with, both threats to freedom. During his visit to the U.S., he pledged: "We are firmly resolved not to repeat the mistakes of the Weimar Republic, which, by its exaggerated liberalism, permitted the enemies of the country to destroy its democratic institutions. We have . . . laws to prohibit and dissolve such organizations . . . and we will apply them against radical elements of both the right and the left. There will not be another...
...border, they saw Voltaire's chateau and talked about Candide. In Augsburg, a Lutheran pastor who spoke no English gave them a lecture on the Reformation, and they tried but failed to get into the monastery where Luther once lived. Next on the list was Faust, but since Weimar is behind the Iron Curtain, they had to settle for Frankfurt am Main, where Goethe was born...
When Thuringian workers were being egged on to revolt against the Weimar Republic in 1923, Walter Ulbricht was one of two Reds who doomed them by persuading Moscow that they needed no arms, "because every Thuringian worker already has a rifle behind his stove." When untrue rumors began to drift to Moscow in the '20s about the intelligentsia, which had assumed command of the German party, Zinoviev, the boss of the Comintern, went to the files, found that all the adverse reports had been signed by Comrade Ulbricht. When Moscow decided in 1925 that the German party must...
Died. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, 80, longtime (1913-41) Harvard professor of banking and finance, and internationally famed monetary authority; in Boston. "Sound Money" Sprague was an adviser to the League of Nations, the Weimar Republic's Reichsbank, the Bank of England. A Treasury Department brain-truster in 1933, he quit in protest against the New Deal's dollar-devaluation policies, wrote his widely quoted Recovery and Common Sense, advocating lower prices and free competition...