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Xehho Lally 324. -~ page two = especially in the rural areas of Easter Germany, The most recent of these suggestions was made by Gerhard Eisler, who suggested the control of the @tections by the Protestant and Catholic Churches, While this sounds good, it nevertheless woukd open the way to great swindles, since East Germany is predominantly Protestant and since the Red Regime has already tajen over large sections of the Protoss tant Clergy, Furthermore the Churches would be under the most violent pressure and would have, in the absence of intemational authorities es Ping of protecting themselves or of telling the world the true actse As against this policy, Adenauer end his foliowers have a clear line of conduct, Adenauer is a good German, who wants unity just. like anyone elsee But he understands that this unity will be true and lasting only, if Germany becomes a part of a united Europe ens if, in preparing this, Germany should accept integration into the Western Forces, provided that this integration is not done under conditions unacceptable to the dignity of Germany, So far, Adenauver's main difficulty has come from France and Britain, while his main support has come from the Americams, The negociations on the treaty have shown, that in many instances both West-European High Commissio= ners have still clung to demands, which at present are entirely unacceptable to the German public opinion. On the other hand, the Ames ricans, while supporting the Germems in most points, are irritating public opinion by small details, which show an ineredible lack of fine understanding for public opinion, Thus for igstance, while nego= ciating on German re-aramenet, they still keep at the expense of the Germans in Coblentz a Commission of numerous officials, whose sole task is to keep Germany Gisarmed and to report on any violation what= soever of the Yalta and Potsdam decisions t an obvious but expensive enachronisme They furthermore refuse to reduce the high standards of completely unjustified lumry of their forces, also at the ex= penses of the Germans, This lumry is one which plays gravely in the hands of the Soviet propaganda. In this instance the British . have acted much more wisely : they have foregone the unjustified luxuries, and reduced their forces to the standards to which they are used in Britain. This has been the abject of meh favourable comment. In the light of these policies, this observer has gained the definite impression, that the personal prestige of Adenauer has considerably risen in the past few weeks, Adehaver is not beloved by the people, But he has something, which in Gerleny is mach more important : he is respected and accented, The Germans, always in search of a leader, are believing that they have found it in the chancellor, And as he shows authority, many Germans are quite heppy about hime This also explains why the Germans increasing], accept tha re-armament of their country. They do not live the pere spective, but they accept it as something inevitable, and hence something it is a waste of time to discuss? While it would be an arror to consider re-armament as something popular, it neverbeless finds less opposition than could be reasonably expected 3 but this only as far as no extraneous matter is injected in the debatce *
