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read, what films they may see, what radio and television programs may entertain (ie, corrupt) theirf leisure hours. Chauvinism and conformity peryade our uni- versities, sclentists are harnessed td the military, ecotjomic persecution and imprisonment are visited upon those who refuse to dance jo the beat of drums. i fs there any wonder than that FE, and so many other Americans, lock to the German Democratic Republic with appreciation and indebtedness? Your people, your bitter history, can teach us not to despair over our people or our present trials. We see in Adenauer Germany a revival of ; all that darkened Germany’s past, brought its people to slaughter, its cities to devastation. We see tn the German Democratic Republic a people moving inte the sunlight of fraternalism, of peaceful, constructive Iaber, of independence from imperialism, of 2 culture in which Goethe, Bee- thoven and Kepler wouid have felt at home, know- ing that here man is valued above profit, Now it is your turn to comfort us, to say “there is another America.” Now we must draw strength from you, Now, when I find my work honored in FOUL CONN, PUL dishéensred DY the Fascists of Am wica, J can know that I am fit company for dece;t men. us wrote the man now hired by Binatra to adapt the film version of “The Executior{ of Private Slovix," the only American soldier executed for desertion in either World War. 3s