Stranica 1 [1]
OCR
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 AL II SSA SES
