A huge, brooding portrait of the late Kurt Schumacher looked down last week from the speaker's stand on the convention of West Germany's Social Democratic Party at Dortmund. Not far from the assembly room the SPD had rigged up a small shrine to the dead leader. The implacable spirit of Schumacher still dominated the country's second largest party. In the keynote address, Schumacher's chief deputy, Erich Ollenhauer, repeated Schumacher's old neins: the Socialists still stood against a peace treaty with the Western powers, against the Schunian Plan, against anything that took precedence over the re-unification of West and East...
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