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