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X.Al4 Nov. 52. - page four ís Viee-Chaneellor Blüeher., A tall, good looking man, he is the type ef the prosperous, successfull industrialist. He is a fair ecenomist, a man whose inters:-ts are deminated by the econemic philosophy ef his group. He is by eenvietion an internationalist, has a good grasp ef both the British and American econemie problems, He is a great supporter ef the European movement. His henesty is above suspieion. On the other hand he is long-winded, talkative and is accused ef lack of efficieney. He alse is far frem being a true po.itician, As it is felt that his greup has passed the high yater mark, his fertunes are declining. The second man of the FDP, almost the exact epposive ef Blücher, is Attorney General Dehlers Rather Prefessorial leoking, Dehler is a man ef firm and hard eenvictions. He has semething extremely rare : absolute deceney in everything and a meral eourage admitted even by his worst enemies. Everybody always knews yhere ene stands with him, He never misses te make his ideas elear. He is at heart a political man, but ene ef these rare types that never will become eynieal s: he is te straightferyard for that. He is a real asset to his party. In the Nazi times, he was the atterney whe defended all Jewish intersts against the Third Reich. His Jewish wife, a person of similar qualities as her husband, survived by a mirawie. Still Dehler is te straightforward a personality te beceme the Chancellor, though he weuld be well fitted. - The second coalitien Party is the German Party. It is headed and represented in the Cabinet by the Ministers Hellwege and Seebohm. Originally the Hannevarian Reyalist Party, the German Party new is trying te get away from its sectional meorings and te become the gathering point ef all Christian Menarehist ferces, The Party is efficially Monarchist, and efficially deeply religious ; The programme is mostly the work ef Under-Secretary Meerkatz, a censervative Prussian. Beth Hellwege and Seebehm are able men, who are defintely rising en the po!itieal herizen. Nevertheless their Party is still te small te give them a ehance at gaining the first position before at least 1957. But they are likely te gain great prominence if the present majority is returned. In that case it will be important te watch them most closely. This then is the team with yhieh Adenauer will meetthe Secialist challenge. On the Socialist side the array of forces is impressive. There is net only the Seeialist Party under Ollenhauer, its new leader. There is alse the support ef the Trade Unien Couneil, the DBB, which, since its recent Cengress in Berlin, has gone te the radical side. Moderate leader Fette was replaced by the radical Freitag, a man who is ready to threw all the Unien force into the battle against the gevernement. This may split the Uniens and eall the emergence ef a Christian Trade Unien. But undeubtedly, now, the Uniens will enter the poiutieal arena, whieh they shunmed till new, SF.
