People's Congress Approves Plan
BERJ IN Mon. (1.30 a.m.) —> The Sovietised constitution for Germany was ratified by a show of bands today by the German People’s Congress. OnJv one of the 2000 congress delegates officially abstained. He called out: “I am a German pacifist." Germany’s No. 2 Communist. Otto Grotewohl. harangued the congress for nearly an hour before the vote, denouncing the Bonn Constitution for “tearing Germany apart.” Under the Eastern constitution, he said, public opinion would be free but riot as free as under the Weimar Republic which granted unrestrained freedom to criminal and political elements.
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Northern Advocate, 31 May 1949, Page 5
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