Politically Frigid

Fritz Jahnke, a Potsdam Communist, had a divorce case against his wife: she was not a Communist. His wife had a counter complaint against her husband: he was carrying on shamelessly with a woman in his office. Last week the Communist court decided in favor of the husband. As for the other woman in the case, said the court, that was easily explained: "Because of the already existing differences in the ideological level of the parties, the plaintiff entered into illicit relations with his colleague in order to further his spiritual development." The judge warned Frau Jahnke: "Marriage does not consist only in the physical relationship bound in a man's sitting in soft slippers before the fireplace but [also in] political readiness."

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