GERMANY: The Sedist Sausage

Sedosan, with the well-known unity trade mark, is the most sensational discovery of the new age—more effective than aspirin . . . more victorious than penicillin. For Sedosan . . . cures everything . . . Sedosan stills the worker's hunger, protects the freezing intellectuals . . . eliminates "reactionaries" . . . transforms Nazis, according to a guaranteed process, into screaming red SEDers.

"Dear Child." With such sarcastic editorials, Berlin's non-Communist newspapers last week ridiculed the cure-all campaign promises made by SED (the Communist-run Socialist Unity Party) in a...

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