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m page six s 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 erisis, 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 administration, 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 another 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, A 4
