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elections are to risky for the regime, To deny them wholesale
would give ammunition to the Germans, In this dilemma Hoffmann
seems undecideds He wavers, And this might be the source of
grave trouble, even to the point at endangering anew French=-Ger=
man relations.
And this is where the Communists come in, Though a small
party, they are legally permitted, are even represented in pars
liament. Their main agent is a Member of Parliament, one
Karcher, His duty is simple and easy. He must do anything that
Will poison FrancomGermen relations. At present he plaus German
nationalism in a fashion which can create explosions, And that is
exactly what he is supposed to dos At one of the neuralgie points
of Europe, entering in a few months into a period of acute eri¬
sis, the Communist Party is in an ideal position to create suplles
mentary difficulties. Supplied with iliimited funds, the party
is able to develop considerable actions, Via their French Comrades
the Saar Communists are receiving large-scale subsidies in their
underground organization, subsisies which are not carried in the
official group, which hence can deny ali this. The facts are that
Communist expenditures far exceed the receipts of the party, And
Intelligence knows that further large scale subsidies are expec~—
ted by the end of the summer - exactly when the critical period
will begin. It is a situation to be closely watched,.
Leaving the Saur the observer is puzzled, What can be
the genuine solution ? Economically the Saar belongs to France{
Its economy supplements the ore of Larraine, which is the normal
market for the Saar cial. Separated from France the Saar will
drop into abject poverty and crisiss There is no way out from
this, Developed at a time when the Lorraine belonged to Germany,
the Saar fell into economic crisis the minute when under Hitler
it was cut economically from France, A union of Gerlany and the
Saar, if the whole is not in custom's union with France would be
an economic nonsensee On the other hand it is clear that the
Saar is Geren in culture and feeling, The Saar regime has given
the people true prosperity, social progress and a fine admini¬
stration, Despite this is has but scanty suvport in the population.
Heace here is a country, politically German economically french,
All solutions fully in favour of one or the other are bound to
fail. So will the present French solutione So would tomorrow a
German, There is hence in the opinion of this observer only ano¬
ther way out : either a French-German custom's union, with res
incorporation of the Saar into into Germany 3 or, if that is pre=
inca the other solution might be a Buropeanization of the
ay belonging culturally to Germany, economically to France, and
Being itself a territory of the European Federation,
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