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TODAY AND
TOMORROW
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vcuild of their official duties and
statements is, to put it mildly,
strongly indicated.
perhaps the best objective
„..;denee on this point is the
market itself. For the
bja,.k market —German style—
L rot due simply and wholly
t0 the difficulties of making a
bsfjl svstem of rationing and
:k.e control work in a country
^iiere people are hungry, the
urre;cc worthless, the people
demoralized, and deception of
the aijen occupying authorities
.'patriotic privilege, even a
patriotic duty. The study of the
piUhr to /ns shows that the Ger
aaR officials to whom the Brit
i=h 'delivered the food must
themselves have connived at
,nd pa, ticipated in the diver
ioR 0) an much of it to the
black market.
If that is what happens with
..nti which is the main preoc
cupation of the Allied and the
German authorities, it is a rea
sonable assumption that the
disparity between the official
,nd the" actual is even greater
elsewhere Recently in one town
the resistance of the German
workers tn the dismantling of a
torpedo plant was traced to the
Mavor and the chief of police
__ both of them ostensibly se
lected carefully by the occupy
ing authorities. As for the ma
jors or colonels detailed to
"control’’ factories and mines,
it would be extraordinarily ' in
nocent to believe that the Ger
man managers provide as much
information as they provide en
tertainment and liquor.
But even more important in
the long run—-because it bears
directly on what Senator Van
drnberg and Mr. Byrnes are
Haying about a separate peace
with western Germany —is the
political attitude of the German
party leaders. I did not see Dr.
Kurt Schumacher, the chair
man of the Social Democratic
partv and the leading candidate
for Prime Minister of the new'
western German state we hear
ho much about. He was in the
United States on a visit which
was facilitated by the State De
partment—a visit which seems
to have inspired him. according
to Mr. Delbert Clark, of “The
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everything he has been saying
about German unity and t<\ be
come the advocate of a parti
tioned Germany. But though I
missed seeing Dr. Schumacher,
I saw several of his more im
portant colleagues both in poli
tics and in the trade unions.
And I have no hesitation in say
ing that if Dr. Schumacher is
'now for a separate western Ger
man state and a separate
peace, he has either decided
that a bird in the hand—which
is to be Premier under Allied
occupation—is worth two in the
bush, or he is taking us for a
ride.
For if there is anything that
is certain in this world it is
that no German politician, who
hopes to have a following
among the broad masses, will
ever, or can ever, accept the
partition of Germany. Not
merely the economic unification
of the four zones, which we
have been seeking, but the res
toration of the political unity of
[the Reich and the restoration of
■ its territorial boundaries, is, as
it inevitably must be, the aim
of all German national parties.
On this point there is no dis
cernible difference of view from
the Communist left to the ex
treme right. The only genuine
exceptions are those few in Ba
varia and the Rhineland who
are the heirs of an old separa
tist tradition. That is why the
most effective theme of Ger
man Communist propaganda is
“German unity,” with the re
minder that only by a deal with
the Russians can the unity of
Germany, as Germans mean it,
be restored.
—
For that reason among others
11 hope we shall not make the
mistake of setting up a German
government in the British
American zones and of making
a separate peace with it, and
of giving it sovereignty. I am
not talking about merging the
zones for military government
and of giving the Germans a
greater degree of responsibility.
I am talking of a separate
peace with a western German
state, which so many in London
and in Washington propose if no
agreement is reached at the
next meeting of the Council of
Foreign Ministers.
For the result of that can only
be that the western German
state will then have to negotiate
that treaty of peace with east
ern Germany, with Russia, Po
land, Czechoslovakia. Austria
| and Yugoslavia which we find
ourselves unable to negotiate.
| If, as Senator Vandenberg sug
gests, the Council of Foreign
Ministers is adjourned sine die
after a deadlock at the Novem
ber meeting, this will mean that
the places now occupied by Mr.
Marshall and Mr. Bevin will be
taken by Dr. Schumacher, or
Herr Jakob Kaiser, of the Chris
tian Democrats, or whoever it
is who becomes the chief of the
| western German state. The ne
gotiations between the western
, Germans and the eastern
I
Germans and with the Soviet
orbit may at first be secret. But
that there will be negotiation is
unavoidable.
The Germans of the western
state must negotiate for politi
cal reasons. Consider, for ex
ample, the mere name of our
proposed German state. Is it to
be called “Germany” or is it
to be called “Western Ger
many”? Any name we give it
will be a standing reminder and
invitation to come to terms with
the east. Consider also Berlin,
and whether, having broken off
negotiations with Russia and
made a separate peace, we
evacuate Berlin or stay there.
If we evacuate it, we shall have
surrendered to Russia the ace
of trumps—namely the power to
restore to Germany its ruined
but none the less historical cap
ital. And if we try to stay, what
will we be staying in Berlin for,
since quadripartite military
government no longer exists
even in theory?
the western Germans must
also negotiate for economic rea
sons since so much of German
trade flows to the east. We shall
even have to advise them to
negotiate. For the Marshall
plan is not, as so many sup
pose, a plan for making west
ern Europe and western Ger
many self-supporting after a
rupture with the east. Contrary
to what appears to be the popu
lar impression in this country,
the plan cannot succeed, and
western Europe must therefore
be subsidized indefinitely, un
less trade between eastern and
western Europe is restored by
1951 to very near the pre-war
normal.
Therefore, I contend that
whatever else we do or cannot
do at the next meeting of the
Council of Foreign Ministers,
the one thing we should not do
i» to make a final break follow
ed by a separate peace. The
present stalemate, bad and ex
pensive as it is, would not be
so bad and so expensive as that.
For though we are losing con
trol of the internal life of Ger
many. we do at least still
control the external relations
of western Germany. 'Russia,
the eastern countries and east
ern Germany must still deal
with us in settling the interna
tional status of Germany. But
if we make a separate peace
with western Germany, we
shall lose sight of and control
over the settlement of the Ger
man question. The negotiation
will disappear underground,
and neither the Germans nor
the Russians will need to con
sider our views or our interests.
It will then be the Russians
who can reunite Germany up to
the Oder-Neisse line. It will be
the Russians who could restore
the pre-war frontiers of Ger
many. We, on the other hand,
will have been committed to
paying the deficit of western
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