Postwar West Germany has had three singular Socialist mayors who stood as stoutly against Communism as they did against Naziism, stood for alliance with the West against the dogma of their party's national leaders. Berlin's Ernst Reuter, defender of freedom's outpost during airlift days, died two years ago; soon afterward Hamburg's Max Brauer, sometime naturalized citizen of the U.S., was defeated at the polls. That left Wilhelm Kaisen, rebuilder of Bremen. Last week in the city-state of Bremen, smallest of West Germany's states, voters handed Kaisen's Social Democratic Party a handsome...
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