FREE SPEECH IN EAST GERMANY
Rights Of “Very Least Citizen” LONDON, July 18. Reuter’s correspondent at Berlin says the East German Prime Minister, Mr Otto Grotewohl, said today that every East German citizen must realise his liberty to utter his opinions in public. “The very least citizen of our republic must know that he can open his mouth, even though the sounds that may come out are not always pleasant,” he told East German press representatives, according to the East German news agency, A.D.N.
Mr Grotewohl said the Government’s new policy, announced over a month ago, was not a short-term alteration but represented a fundamental change. He called on the press and radio to treat questions of public interest “openly and conscientiously,” and said they should take up new propaganda methods.
Mr Rudi Weetzel, president of the East German Press Union, said that painting a pretty picture of unpleasant facts in the past had robbed the press and radio of the public’s confidence.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27096, 20 July 1953, Page 9
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