Rabuemurere\
——

By A. POTHORN
The National Socialist Ger-
man Worker’s Party of Adolf
Hitler,, with all its by now
well known trickeries, false-
hoods and demagogy, also
“celebrated” the May Day.
Only a few days ago this
found its most worthy duplica-
tion in the WNazi-infested,
Western subsidized, US.
show-case — West Berlin.
“This time a real “labor
deader” addressed the gather-
ing as guest speaker — the
American son of the Viennese
equilibrium brand of Social
Democrat — Reuther.
- True, in his home country,
the U.S., Walter Reuther is
not exactly a May Day pro-
ponent. The West Berlin type

of May Day, however, is a
different matter, it is “res-
' pectable.” U.S.~ monopolists

whole-heartily approve of it. It
Teally behooves such an “em-
issary of the working-class”
(not to forget the state de-
partment) to pledge solidarity
to West Berlin’s struggle in
defense of capitalism to re-
main “free” in the free world
of capitalist exploitation and
free cold-war mongering.

- The'main speaker, of course,
was Willy Brandt who enter-
ed this world in 1913 in Lu-
beck as Herbert Karl Frahm,
the son of a poor sales girl.
In his high school studies, he
was sponsored by the then
Social Democratic MP, Julius
Leber. With his poverty-
stricken background and _ his
ambitiousness,, Frahm soon
became a young Social Demo-
erat “radical.”

After Hitler came to power,
he emigrated to Norway, and
H. K. Frahm changed. Partly
perhaps because of the in-
fluence of his Norwegian
wife, formerly Mrs. Ruth
Hansen, now West Berlin’s
glamorous “first lady” who
races her American cars on
Willy Brandt’s speedways.

In the first years of his
exile H. K. Frahm still dis-
played outwardly at least,
the upstanding anti - fascist.
This changed sharply during
the Spanish Civil War, in
which he participated, sup-
posedly, as an _ anti-fascist
publicist. In reality however,

as an agent-provocateur. It
was there that for the first
time he appeared openly in
this role, which he has up-
held to this day — in a com-
mon front with General
' Franco as banner carriers of
_ American-Occidental capital.

In cosy alliance with some
‘Anarchists, Trotskyites, and a

few other shady companions,

| Portrait of Willy Brose

Cold war warrior
of West Berlin

H. K. Frahm, instigated a
putsch during the Spanish
Civil War committing an act
of treasoh against the Spanish
democrats and the fighters of
the anti-fascist International
Brigade.

After 1945, H. K. Frahm,
who by now had become Willy
Brandt, ‘made so much talk
about himself during ‘his West
Berlin career, that ‘it is super-
fluous to go into any detail.
It must be said however, that
he is not an ordinary “cold
war warrior,’ but one of the
coldest. This Social’ Demo-
crat gets along far better
with Bonn’s Christian Demo-
crat espionage Minister, Lem-
mer, than with any of his
Social Democrat comrades of
West Germany, whose great-
est wish is by and large, that
the last world war should re-
main the last one. Brandt’s
latest tendencies of “Caesar-
ism” have -met with ever
growing distrust.

The ice is breaking, Willy
Brandt on his luxurious cold
war ice-floe of West Berlin
may soon find his foothold
slipping and no doubt will
take off in search for another
lucrative cold war ice - field;
once the workers and the un-
employed of West Berlin -re-
fuse to put up any longer
with this type pf Social Demo-
crat and his demagogy —
recognizing that an agent-
provocateur of the calibre of

‘Herbert Karl Frahm, alias
Willy Brandt, is dangerous,
xt t xt

A footnote on West Berlin’s
May Day, from Rude Pravo:

“The right wing leadership
of. the Social Democratic
Party, in union with ‘the
Christian Democratic Party
(CDU), the ‘fascist German
Party, the Employers’ Associ-
ation, and*fascist military and
revanchist organizations, »as-

~sembled near the Branden-

burg Gate.

“It was a dirty provocation
and falsification of the work-
ers’ holiday of struggle. In-
stead of red. flags there were
the revanchist flags of the
DP’s organizations.

“Mayor Brandt, the main
speaker, appealed to the
leaders of the West to “stand
firm” at Geneva and not to
budge an inch from the de-
mands of Bonn...

“Defying Brandt, however,
the Social Democratic Youth
section marched under slogans
of its own: “We want a united
Germany, but without Aden-
auer!”; “We fight against atom
death!”; “Put an end to un-
employment!”

West's dilemma

By LANCE SIMPSON

at Geneva meet

Those on whom the outcome of the East-West foreign ministers’ conference largely de-
pends were not sitting around the table when the talks started Monday this week in the
Palais des Nations in Geneva. They are the people of the world, whose feelings and actions
forced the reluctant Western governments to agree to a meeting in the first place.

That victory needs to ‘be
followed by others.

Once again the cold-war
warriors are out to sabotage
‘any moves toward agreement
and to prevent the Sunimit
talks, for which the foreign
ministers’ meeting is supposed
to be a preparation.

For the basic issue at Gen-
eva is: thaw versus cold war.

The question is: A German
peace treaty or H-bombs for
the former Hitler generals?

The flurry of Western meet-
ings, the mooting of this plan
or that, have tended to ob-
scure this central issue in the
past few months.

“Why talk??” and “How to
talk” have taken up a great
deal of time and attention in-
stead.

“Why talk?” has been ans-
wered by the growing pres-
sure of all those long weary
years of- the cold war. The
question of “How to talk” is
still being used by the West
as a drag anchor.

Moreover, the holding of
Summit talks this summer, re-
gardless of the progress the
foreign ministers may make,
is still being obstructed by the
chief NATO Powers, with
varying degrees of obstinacy.

But all this cannot get

around the two basic dilemmas

of the capitalist Powers: they
are more divided than at any
time since the end of the Sec-
ond World War — and they
have no popular policy to put
up against the proposals made
to start a thaw.

The Soviet Union’s pro-
posal were published in detail
months ago. They include the
draft for a German peace
treaty and the plan to remove
the fuse from the West Berlin
powder keg.

The draft peace treaty
would bar both German states
from being armed with nu-
clear weapons, provides for
the withdrawal of all foreign
troops ‘from German soil and
the ending of foreign bases,
and leaves the question of re-
unification to be discussed be-
tween East and West Ger-
_many.

The plan for West Berlin
proposes to make it a demili-
tarized free city under United
Nations auspices.

Britain, the United States,

France and West Germany
have for months been discuss-
ing what to reply and have
tabled so far — nothing.
Paris they did agree, however,
on a secret “package” plan
which is only to be unwrapped
at the Geneva conference.

An outline of what it con-
tains has been disclosed
through “leaks.” and it turns
out to be the Western Powers’
old device of making al] the
proposals as one _ indivisible
whole — being careful to in-
clude some which they know
cannot be agreed.

Progress on German reuni-
fication and on European sec-
urity are tied together in the
“nackage’”’ and German reuni-
fication, as in the past, is tied
to so-called “free” elections,
while a reunified Germany is
to be “free” to belong to Nato.

Meanwhile the British and
American troops would stay in
West Germany and the nu-
clear arming of the West Ger-
man forces would continue.

The occupation of West Ber-
lin would go on until the city

became the capital of a re-
unified Germany.

Also in the “package” is a
proposal for arms ‘inspection
—in an area ‘tipped variously
to run from the Atlantic to the
Urals, and not even including
the whole of West Germay.

Arms limitation would only
follow at a remote time, after
practically all the other “pack-
age” proposals have been car-
ried out — which, its authors
know, means never.

What they were not able to
agree, however, was what to
do after they have tabled this
sabotage plan.

With Dulles gone and Aden-
auer on his way upstairs, the
other cold-war politicians are
violently disagreed about their
tactics.

That is where the unseen
participants of the Geheva
talks must take a hand, must
insist that Summit talks take
place, that West German nu-
clear rearamament is halted,
that the German Democratic
Republic is 'recognized, and
that a peace treaty is seriously
discussed.

Duke has dinner with
former Hitler general

LONDON—General Speidel, former ‘Hitler general, was
one of the guests of honor at a Guildhall banquet Monday
at which the Duke of Edinburgh spoke. The general is today

one of the Nato commanders.

In addition to the Duke of Edinburgh, the speakers were

General Norstad, Nato Sup-
reme Commander; Duncan
Sandys, Minister of Defense;
and Dr. Luns, the Dutch For-
eign Minister, who is president
of the Nato council.

The banquet was held by

‘the European Atlantic Group,

headed by merchant banker
Lord Bessborough, to mark the
tenth anniversary of Nato.

General Speidel, now com-
mander of Nato’s Central Eur-
opean Land Forces, with head-
quarters near Paris, was at one
period during the Second
World War the Chief of Staff
to the Nazi military command-
er in occupied Paris. During
this period hundreds of French
hostages were deported or
murdered.

Herr Franz Josef Strauss,
West German Defense Minister
was also a guest at the ban-
quet. Herr Strauss, who was a
political officer in the- Nazi
forces, came to London or
talks with Sandys. The mili-
tary exponent of Chancellor
Adenauer’s cold war policy,
Herr Strauss has described
supporters of an atom-free
zone in Central Europe as
“potential war crimanls.”

He recently visited the Uni-
ted States to discuss the nu-
clear arming and training of
the growing West German
forces, and boasted a few
weeks ago that by 1962 those
forces would be 350,000-strong
—just 25,000 short of Sandy’s
target for Britain by the year.

May 15, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3