The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 15, 1954, Page 7

Monday, March 15, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 7 Tour Of Russian Sector Is Popular Berlin Attraction By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN BERLIN (The U.S. Army’s | 25-cent tour of Berlin, featuring} @ look at real live Russians, is 80 popular that on some days they edd an extra bus. The tour takes in bits of recent history as well as the old. They will show you, for example, the spot where the Communists stopped Adlai Stevsnson during his | visit a few months ago and seized | the film from his camera. As extras, English-speaking German guides toss in free plugs for German beer and a few none- too-subtle jibes at the Reds. The big attraction, of course, is the ride through the Soviet | sector where 1,200,000 live amid war ruins and the people’s police. The only reconstruction of any | size is along Stalin Allee, which) the Reds have made their show- piece, The thoroughfare is lined on| both sides with new apartment buildings, offices and shops. Many | of the shops are the state-operated “Ho” stores of the Handels Organ- isationen (trade organizations). | The guide on your bus, a West Berliner, will tell you with a sly smile that the “Ho” means “Hun-| gernder Osten’? (Hungry East). | You don’t get to see many Rus-} sian soldiers in East Berlin. They re garrisoned on the outskirts of the city and not allowed in town except on Sundays. | You will, however, see Russian | guards at the Soviet war memor- ials, the Russian Embassy and a} few ather spots. The bus tour starts and ends @t the post exchange across the street.from U.S. Army headquar- ters. Most of the passengers are American officers and enlisted | men, their wives, and American civilians working for government | agencies, Before starting out, an Army officer reads the regulations: “Passengers will conduct them-| selves with dignity at all times, particularly in the Soviet sector, Whistling or shouting will not be tolerated.” He cautions against taking piec- tures of military installations or Russian soldiers. Also, no pur- |chases- in the Soviet sector are| | allowed. The tour carries you through | Socialists In West Germany Face Crisis By BRACK CURRY - BONN, Germany W@#—Rearma- ment and Karl Marx have helped plunge West Germany’s Socialist | party into a crisis. Like the British Laborites, Ger- man Socialists are fighting among same issues. The negative results of the Big Four conference in Berlin have brought inner Socialist dissent into the open. After their party trailed in last September’s national election, a | vigorous group of young Social- ists cried that the leadership had invited defeat by charmpioning Marxist doctrines and failng to | adopt a clear foreign policy line. In ‘contrast to the inflation-rid- themselves—and in part over the | tion. West Berlin’s shopping district to| den ’20s when the Socialist banner City Hall for a look at the Amer-| flew high, prosperous, well-fed ican-donated Freedom Bell and to | Germans of 1954 have no stomach |huge Tempelhof Airport. “There's nothing wrong with this car that can’t be fixed with an auto repair loan from CITY LOAN CO.!” Key West 2-0681 §24 Southard St. Entering the sSoviet sector a/| short time later, the buses pass the sector checkpoint with only a | Momentary stop. | Usually, Russian and German | flags and propaganda signs are much in evidence. You disembark jonly once in the Soviet sector, at| the Garden of Remembrance war | memorial. The atmosphere in the Russian sector is quiet, almost sullen. Only a few cars are on the streets and most of these are official cars. | Just before leaving the sector, | you get a look at the rubbled ruins | of most of the important buildings of the Nazi regime, including the remains of Hitler’s bomb shelter. You also are driven past the deserted East Station, from which |the “Blue. Express” leaves for | Moscow. “This station,” your guide say | “Is always crowded like this.” POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE ‘aiua4m STATION SERVICE Francis at Troman DIAL 2-9193 Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries ACCESSORIES WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS IN THE LINE OF Chi. #7... bows ons TOYS for the 1848-thinking of Marx, this group argued. , They demanded that the party softpedal Socialist doctrinaire tra- dition and change from a “class” party into a ‘“‘people’s” party. | Only in this way, they said, could |the Socialists dig into the monop- oly of middle class votes held by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s Christian Democratic party. The young Socialists argued that me) attitude on the question of a German contribution to Western defense was a liability in the elec- They said the Socialists should support Adenauer’s policy of co- operation with the West—or chart a workable, alternative foreign Policy, The Socialist foreign policy line had been that West Germany should avoid the obligations of al- liances with the West and work solely for German unity. Old Guard Socialists thundered back that “Marxist doctrine” is the time-tested foundation of the party. To bid for middle class | backing would risk losing the hard core of workers, they argued. This struggle raged for months behind closed party doors until Russia’s V. M. Molotov blocked German unity for thé immediate future, at least. Now Socialist Deputy Georg Kahn-Ackermann has publicly told his party that its argument that German rearmament would pre- the party’s “ohne mich” (without | judice the chances for unity does not hold water after the Berlin con- ference. It was the first open defection | by a Socialist member of Parlia- | ment. Party discipline in Germany is tight and the Socalists usually vote as a sold bloc on all issues in Parliament. As a result, the young Socialists are pressing harder for revision of a policy which they claim Molo- tov discredited by his refusal at the Berlin conference to consider | German unity on any except iron- clad Soviet terms. | The rebels appear to be recruit-| ing fresh support. Some Socialist publishers and editors have been warning that their readers now share the rebels’ view. FOOTBALL POINTERS BACKFIRE ON COACH WINIFRED, Mont. (®—Coach Chuck Kettering decided to give his Winifred High School physical education class some pointers in football. | The students caught on too fast for Kettering. He went to the hos-| | women deliberated four pital with an injured leg. Wable Begins Fight To Escape Electric Chair GREENSBURG, Pa. (#—John | Wesley Wable, 24, convicted of slaying a sleeping truck driver on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, to- day began fighting for a new trial to escape the state’s electric chair. A. C. Scales, chief defense at- torney, said he will appeal the jury verdict of first-degree mur- der with recommendation for | death on grounds the prosecution |erred in presenting testimony. A jury of seven men and five hours Saturday before convicting the | Ohiopyle, Pa., handyman of shoot- ing to death Harry F. Pitts, 39, of Bowling Green, Va., as he slept in his parked truck. Wable, cell, was quoted by his attorney as saying yesterday: “I don’t understand how they could bring in that verdict. I didn’t do anything.” Wable is charged with slaying Lester B. Woodward, 39, of Dun- cannon, Pa., and wounding John K. Shepherd, 34, of West Alexander, Pa. Prince Wants 2nd Try At T28B Flight LOS ANGELES # — Prince,a propeller-driven T28B trainer, Bernhard of the Netherlands flies | the engine sputtered and stopped to the flight test center at Edwards | about six miles out over the Pa- Air Force Base today hoping to again fly the plane that quit on him over the Pacific. The visit will complete a four- day tour of southern California avi- ation installations by the hand- some 42-year-old husband of Queen Juliana. | menting, cifie. Lt. Col. A. T. House, U. S. Air Force plant representative at North American Aviation, brought the plane in for a successful dead stick landing. 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