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The great
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PUT it tike this to the first

ons man or woman you

et:

ae you want to rearm the

ae who slaughtered, tortur-
4nd enslaved millions of hu-

‘1 beings and smashed up

ang ands of, cities and towns
nd industries, doing untold

q ‘oO you want’ to make West
Se meny the strongest military
ate in Western and Central
Wope?
© you want the Yanks to
d a: German, French and
Mtish ang Canadian army on a
& of conquest against Russia?
bi © you want another — and
Ser —_ world* war in which
More millions will be killed and
°re countries smashed up?
al Br YOU, want to go through
me for the benefit of a hand-
th Of Yankee ‘capitalists and
€lr German stooges?
Ut it like this and what

qua be the answer? Can you
eet it?

Sen,

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bet to begin at the begin-
ing,

a ‘1945, the Russians had
t ™ed (Berlin. The British and
Rhi Americans had crossed the
Ne. Hitler was dead. The
Mans had surrendered. Ger-
ae was occupied — by the
Brit Siang in the Bast and the
tty ttish, Americans and French
the West.
What was to be her fate?
at question had been fore-
N and was answered at Pots-
4." in July 1945 when the Al-
let 4greed that German prob-
oe Should be solved by the
’ Great Powers — Britain,
SSia. the U.S. and France.
ia Ut the Americans had other
The big trusts had inter-
‘Germany — which they

on Kept in spite of the war.

a vad Were out to preserve their

coug and grab others that

be transferred to them by
Ter” Nazis,

‘As strong as their greed for
assets was the Yankees’ fear of
the triumphant socialism of the
Soviet Union and the example
Russia was setting to the world
at large.

Since Russia would never
agree to American contro] of
Germany, one thing was needed
to grab German industry, and in
particular the rich prize of the
Ruhr.

That was the partition of Ger-
many into Western and Eastern

‘States with the Americans con-

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trolling the West,

But it should not be done all
at once, A great deal of prepar-
ation was needed. For one
thing, in' 1945, the British gov-
ernment had yet, to be won over
to the plan.

Not only that, suitable excuses
had to be found. The propaganda
machine had to be set in mo-
tion.

The Russians, at incalculable
cost, had ‘‘torn the guts” out of
the German armies. Quarrels
must be picked with them. That
would take time and hard work,
@

One of the first big quarrels,
in 1946, was over reparations.
This was an ideal subject to
choose.

There is nothing so perplex-
ing and tedious to anyone but
an expert as a complicated argu
ment involving huge figures
which-—on paper—mean nothing

-to most people.

It had been agreed by Stalin,
Roosevelt and Churchill at the
Yalta Conference that Germany
should pay reparations in kind.

Now the Americans objected
to handing over German equip-
ment from the West to Russia.

If there had from the first |

been a simple refusal to keep
the Potsdam and Yalta agree-
ments the issue would have been
too simple.

People would have said: “The
Americans are actually richer
now than at the beginning of the

war. ‘Why should they prevent
the Nazis from making good
some part of the colossal damage
they caused to Russia?’

The Yankees were too astute
to deny the principle of repara-
tions. Instead they argued about
the “balance of payments,” the
“level of industry,” “deliveries
from current production,” ‘‘dis-
mantling,”’
DOLLS ==.

This went on for months, and
even years. And so the public
mind was blunted when, eventu-
ally. General Clay, then the Am
erican Deputy Commander in
Germany, stopped the payment
of all reparations from Western
Germany,

Thus he saved valuable assets
for the German capitalists and
their American mentors. He be-
gan to rebuild West Germany
as a great capitalist and military

State controlled by U.S. busi-

ness experts.

He broke the Potsdam and
Yalta: agreements. He made way
for the partition of Germany.

The Russians, we were told,
were always saying ‘‘No.” In
fact they made concession after
concession, \But of course, they
did say “‘No” to the suggestion
that the agreements solemnly
entered into by the Allies should
be broken.

A further step toward. parti-
tion was taken by the Americans
at the meeting in Moscow of
the Council of Foreign Ministers
(of the (Four (Powers) in the
spring of 1947.

This was a diplomatic meet-
ing with a diplomatic approach,
Yes, the Americans said, we
want Four-Power control of the

' whole of Germany. But not

Four-Powey control of the Ruhr.
And no land reforms, or any
others.

Molotov said ‘“‘No” to this im-
pudent American attempt to
grab the whole of Germany.

, While this was going on, Gen-

eral McNarney, who had been

\

“payment for im-

U.S. Military Governor, said
quite undiplomatically that
Western Germany might be es-
tablished as a separate State.

But it was Marshall, of the
“Marshall Plan,’ who was one
of the diplomats at Moscow, who
got the headlines in the million-
aire , press.

Marshall. however, “did not
remain diplomatic for long, The
next meeting o f the Council of
Foreign Ministers took place in
London,

He broke it up. Again the split
was ostensibly over that dread-
fuly worn out and ‘‘boring’’ sub-
ject—reparations.

By this time the ‘Marshall
Plan’ had been accepted by the
Western States. And Marshall’s
action was dictated by that.

It had nothing to do with re-
parations (except incidentally).
The plain fact was that Four-
Power control of Germany was
impossible under the Marshall
Plan.

The Marshall Plan is perhaps
the greatest fraud of the whole
series. It was presented (and
accepted by the British Labor
government) as a plan to help
Europe.

It was supposed to, for in-
stance, eliminate the ‘dollar
gap” by 1951. Yet we are now
told that the dollar gap is our
greatest economic trouble.

+ It will not help Europe. It
placed Western Europe under
American orders,

+ Its main effect was to take
over Germany for American
“free enterprise.”

+ It. depended upon raising
the production of German steel
— a matter on which the Rus-
sians must not be allowed to

@ In West Germany police are
being converted into virtual
militia units, armed with

rifles and equipped with ma--

chine-guiis and other field
weapons, A Germon officer
(top left) is shown examining
a group of “volunteers” re-
porting for their first day of

duty. , British foreign secre-.

tary Anthony Eden (top
right) reviews a police guard
in West Berlin. The third
photo shows what. these ‘“pol-
icemen” are being trained for.
A combined team of U.S. sol-
diers of the occupation forces
and West Berlin police stage
a smoke-bomb attack to ‘‘pro-
tect the city’ against mock
demonstrators.

‘

“interfere.”

John Foster Dulles, the
presidential adviser on foreign
affairs, put the matter bluntly
and briefly. He told the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee in
Januaryel948 that the U.S. was
now a Western European goy-
ernment.

In fact, he said, it was the
most powerful Western BEuro-
pean government, for with Brit-
ain, it governed the Ruhr, which
was “the economic heart of
Europe.”’

(The Ruhr had been taken
over by the U.S. when the U.S.
and British Zones in Germany
were “merged” in 1946. The
Russians protested that a divid-
ed Germany would jead to re-

“vival of a nationalist movement

under, the leadership of the “old
militarists. )

Concluded on page 10)
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