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At a mass meeting of 25,000 angry Berliners, West Berlin's Mayor Ernst Reuter cried: "Now our patience must have an end. We appeal to the whole world for help to this man." Said Dr. Friedenau: "Such violations . . . cannot be undone by mere protests." When a handful of Communist hecklers raised their voices, they were set upon and beaten by the angry crowd.
Bland Promise. The driver of the taxi was turned loose a few hours after the coup, but Walter Linse was still unheard from. For several days the East Berlin press ignored the fury on the other side of the line. Then, in an editorial headed "An American Agent Is Lost," the Communist Neues Deutschland trumpeted: "No war agent will be safe, whether he is in West Berlin, Bonn, Paris or Washington." U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy, who is leaving next week after three years at his post, used his farewell call on Chairman Vasily Chuikov of the Soviet Control Commission to protest the kidnaping. Chairman Chuikov promised to look into the matter, but added blandly that he hoped McCloy did not really think that the Soviet authorities were in any way involved.