Stranica 1 [1]
TUPRESSLONS FROM GERMANY,
With the obvious effort of the USSR to do anything in
its power to prevent an integration of Germany into the Western
bloc, as best expressed in the recent notes of the Soviet Governe= —
ment on free German elections and on the unification of Germany,
it is now obvious to the intemational observers, that what might
be termed the "battle of Germany” is on, and that it will be car»
ried out with ever inercasing intensity during the crucial months
of this coming summer, It is hence of decisive importance to fol=
low trends and events in Germany with ever-increasing attention,
And this is also the reason, why this observer has made and will
continue to make frequent observation trips to Germany in order
to assess the chances of the West and to mark the shifting trends
and the variyng intlmences in the German scenes
Te stake of the battle is a simple one. The Soviets,
having failed in their effort to créate a unified Soviet or Red
Germany are trying now by all means to create a neutral Germany,
which would be lice a gaping hole in the Western Defenses, Tms
the primary object of the Soviet Governement is to utilize the
understandable desire of the Germans at re=unificetion of the
country, in order to overthrow the regime of Chancellor Adenauer
and to create a allegermen coslition Cabinet which would be sub=
mitted to Soviet veto and fressure. It is thus that the notes of
the Sovicts mst be understoods What they do not teil is that
under an old allied control-law, such an all-german sovernenent
would again lose ali Sovereigity, would lead to the re-establish
ment of a quadripartite military council, in which the rule of unae
ninity would existe In other words by the establishment of such
lity to deprive ant German governement of even the last vestigus
of independencee Unfortunately this fact is very little known in
Germany; and it is an unbelievable shortcoming of Allied propaganda
and psychological warfare that they do not make ali the efforts to
make this fact understood by the Germans ¢ because such an infor=
the Soviets do not intend to permit genuinely free elections in
their Zone‘ A secret memorandum of the East German Communist Party,
reporting on Russia's stand, and which this observer has seen, .
points out that in any event the Communist §.E.D. Party in order §
to continue to useful in fúture German affairs would need at least
tions, uniiess the elections in Hast Germany are controlled. That
is the reason why the Soviets have turned down U.N. controi of the
elections, end why they are frantically looking for another formila,
which, while outwardly securing democratic guarantecsh, would in
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