GERMANY: Business Trip

Blueshirted young Communists from the World Youth Festival invaded West Berlin again last week, but this time it was no innocent visit to gobble free food, gape at well-stocked department stores, see the exhibits, color television, radio shows and movies the Western allies had set up for their Communist callers. This time 14,000 crossed the border on business: to stir up hatred against the West.

Their Red leaders wanted to do something to break up the blueshirts' fraternizing with free Berliners.

At factories in the Russian sector, word was passed around one day...

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