Costly Kindergarten Rovilo Oliver

As Mr. Horne shows, the German Federal Republic, of all the larger European states, is one of the best inoculated against Communism. There is not one Communist deputy in the freely elected Bundestag. The constant stream of hundreds of thousands of fugitives from the Soviet Zone to the West is an eloquent informal plebiscite for the West against the East, for the rule of law and the free economy against Communist dictatorship.

The author is a reporter, not a commentator. His sympathies are obviously with Adenauer, the remarkable octogenarian who has led his people so far on the road to “return to power,” to quote the title of the book, and against the extreme nationalists who sometimes make an unholy alliance with Communists on a platform of neutralism and opposition to Adenauer. The Soviet leaders would be happy to settle for a neutralized Germany, with American troops withdrawn across the Atlantic, and with Soviet troops right across the border in Poland or in Koenigsberg, annexed to the Soviet Union and renamed Kaliningrad.

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As Mr. Horne shows, the German Federal Republic, of all the larger European states, is one of the best inoculated against Communism. There is not one Communist deputy in the freely elected Bundestag. The constant stream of hundreds of thousands of fugitives from the Soviet Zone to the West is an eloquent informal plebiscite for the West against the East, for the rule of law and the free economy against Communist dictatorship.

The author is a reporter, not a commentator. His sympathies are obviously with Adenauer, the remarkable octogenarian who has led his people so far on the road to “return to power,” to quote the title of the book, and against the extreme nationalists who sometimes make an unholy alliance with Communists on a platform of neutralism and opposition to Adenauer. The Soviet leaders would be happy to settle for a neutralized Germany, with American troops withdrawn across the Atlantic, and with Soviet troops right across the border in Poland or in Koenigsberg, annexed to the Soviet Union and renamed Kaliningrad.