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‘eant Hesdline Service Exclusive ta ®. ¥.. Jouriis)-Anierioan Prank Sinetra’s hiring of Albert Maltz, Com-~- munist writer and a member of the notorious ood Ten,” has led to disclosure of a letter rote to the editor of a newspaper in Com- isi East Germany six years ago. is was in 1954—seven years after Maltz’s Communist party membership card was introduced into the record of the House Un-American Activi- ties Committee. The date serves to establish the continuance of his-loyalty to the Communist cause. In the jetter Maitz condemned “Adenauer Germany” as Germany’s past.” He praised Communist East Germany as a ¢qun- try of “people moying inte the sunlight of fra- ternalism, of peaceful, constructive labor, of inde- pendence from imperialism.” He denounced his own country as an intellectual and cultural tyranny where “economic persecution and imprisonment are visited upon those who refuse to dance to the beat of the drums.” The letter follows: Editor, Tagliche Rundschaa Berlin--G. D. BR. Dear Colleague: By means of this letter I would like to express my wery deep appreciation of the honor paid to me by your newspaper and others, and by various individuals, on the occasion af my 45th birthday. Yet, #eyond personal sentiment, (however keen), therefis an additional reason that prompts me to “a revival of all that darkened . write to you. It is the appreciation thai I, and thousands of agressive Americans, feel for the peopfe, the Itural leaders, the political leaders, of the Ger- an Demacratic Republic. Let me explain. In the German tragedy that began |[n the eichstag fire in 1955, there was a cultural aspect that many Americans, (and many tn all countries), found bitterly disheartening. This was the demonstration that under given historical conditions even the mest advanced cul- ture could turn upon fiself with narrow, frenzied chauvinism, cast out with venom some of its best thinkers, artists, teachers, scientists, pervert its humanistic tradition, reduce its fertile minds to silent conformity. There were some Americans who said of this: “There you are—that's the wax the Germans are.” But there were ethers of us who said, “No! This is what can happen in any land when a people are betrayed by their woes and by false leaders, There is another Germany,” we said, “there will be an- other Germany.” And we retainéd in our heuris and minds ihe Germany of Beethoven and Goethe, of Kepler and Ehrlich, of Kant and Hegel, of Marx and Engets, of Mann and Seghers, of Thaelmann. How goes if now? The world scene has altered a/bit. Now thieving, demagogic politicians Ii the iAtellectual Cretin, Senator McCarthy, are Aecid~- ing more and more what hooks American’ may ,