—ayeRasomnsee By YURI ZHUKOV ANY observers paid deep attention to a report, published by the Czechoslovak newspaper, Rude Pravo, at the beginning of August, which reveals the most cherished de- signs of West Germany: while FRG diplomats are trying in every possible way to hold back the elaboration of a treaty on the non-proliferation of nu- clear weapons, Bonn’s envoys are coming to an agreement with the rulers of South Africa on the manufacture and tests of nuclear armaments in the latter country. The matter concerns the A-bomb, Rude Pravo wrote, and not of one pos- sibility, but of three simultaneously— a West German bomb made on the territory of South Africa, a West Ger- man bomb made together with South Africa, and a West German bomb made for South Africa. This is on no account a theoretical discourse and by no means only one concrete danger. It is three parallel variants of a plan. South Africa has all what :West Germany lacks—uranium, lithium, thorium, nu- clear physicists, and carrier rockets. However, South Africa, meanwhile, does not have that which the FRG possesses — money and the necessary steel and electrical engineering in- dustry. I have before me a voluminous me- morandum complied by the Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee of the German Democratic Republic and called: “The Bonn-Pretoria Alliance.” On reading this memorandum, I in- voluntarily recalled the talk I had with the late Frederic Joliot-Curie, the great scientist and peace champion. This conversation took place in the troubled days of March 1955 when the United States was twisting the arms of its NATO allies in seeking the ratification of the notorious “Paris Agreements,” envisaging the armament of West Ger- many and its inclusion in the Atlantic bloc. For the sake of calming down the alarmed public, the authors of these agreements conceived the following trick: the FRG rejected the manufac- ture of nuclear and missile weapons on its own territory. “On its own territory!” Joliot-Curie repeated, after reading out to me the conforming article. “This isn’t an acci- dental reservation. It leaves a loophole for the manufacture of nuclear and missile weapons on the territories of other countries. One must be a total ignoramus or a traitor not to notice this. We'll fight against the ‘Paris Agreements’ in the fiercest way poOs- sible!” € Everything happened as was pre- dicted by Joliot-Curie. On September 23, 1966 already, the influential West German weekly Die Zeit stated: “In 1954 the Federal Republic cate- gorically refused to manufacture atom- ic weapons on the territory of the Federal Republic. It did not reject then the possibility of manufacturing such weapons abroad or buying, or hiring them from other states”. Six months -had passed, and on Feb- ruary 17, 1967 Chancellor Kiesinger himself, in a TV speech, most vigorous- ly supported this extravagant “legal point of view” and said that the FRG had so far “refused to make atomic weapons only on our own territory”. He further ‘opposed the non-prolifera- tion treaty, which would make impos- sible “the production of atomic weap- ons on the territory of other countries, or with such other country.” <] = Further events continued in the same vein. In the so-called “Rocket Memo- randum”, made public in November 1966, the FRG leading monopolies openly proclaimed the course of de- velopment of rockets — the notorious “means of delivery” of nuclear weap- ons. Why are these frank statements, spelling, in fact, an outright challenge to the West-European allies of the FRG, which naively believed (or pretended to believe) the assertions that the “Paris Agreements” guranteed that West Germany would not possess rocket-nu- clear weapons, made precisely now, in in 1966-1967? The West-European observers thus reply to this question: there is a time for everything. At first, the FRG was concerned with the creation of its Bundeswehr, which will be 12 years old on November 12. During this time the West German tax payers have paid for the building up and maintenance of the army a total of 164,000 million marks. Simultaneously the FRG, under the pretext of development of peaceful uses of atomic energy, was preparing a basis for nuclear weapon manufacture and until a certain time kept silent about its cherished plans. — Today the basis for the production of nuclear weapons is ready. e However, the “farsighted” person- alities in the FRG understand very well, naturally, that the sole production of nuclear fuel is by far not enough. The A-bomb has to be made and tested, and carriers have to be built for it. It )—- Bonn-Pretoria axis: is simply impossible to do all this in densely populated Western Germany. And it was actually for this reason that there appeared the need for the South African companion who, first, lias large deposits of uranium and tho- rium, and, second, so far possesses vast tracts of desert land. The’ cooperation with this companion~was made easier for the FRG leaders by the fact that it dates back to the times of Hitler. (It is generally known that in those days there was operating in South Africa Hitler’s 5th column personified by such personalities as Hetzog, Malan, Ver- woord and Vorster). Strauss, who is now the “strong man” in Kiesinger’s government, in his article contributed to the newspaper Die Welt after his trip to South Africa in April-May 1966 declared that the Europeans should recognize the exist- ence of a “political North—South axis” since “Europe and Africa depend on each other and are connected strategic- . ally” and that “they can give a lot to each other.” And then, repeating the plan which was formulated in Hitler’s times by Dr. Muellhof for giving sup- port of the formation of the “great South African state’ came out in favor of setting up a “big economic co- op: which would unite (besides South Africa) South West Africa, Rhodesia, Portugal’s overseas provinces and some other states inhabited by the blacks.” Strauss did not say the main thing: this “big co-op” which it would be more correct to call a big jail, for the Afri- can peoples was supposed, according to the plans of its designers, to be kept under the protection of nuclear mis- September 22, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 6 - possible scale with Sou ration sile weapons that would be pre in the FRG with the help? gi Africa. Incidentally, all this» ents a year before Strauss’s statell aia Fouche, the then War Ministl RSA. He announced. that ment of South Africa had) “from a Western government : ence for the “production Africa of a bomb of the Mr type (Johannesburg Star, t. 1965) and soon after tha the head of the RSA speaking on Aug. 5, 1969, of the ceremony of the ©0 of the first South African @ tor, admitted that what was the “military utilization of rial” along with its utilizati0 ful purposes. on Mar mmiss!® tomle e . Naturally, South Africa be to go before it can we atomic weapons. Howevely German concerns of Krupp 5 ens are cooperating 0 ‘Africa to bring nearer the eee problem. No wonder Fischer tor of the South Africa Chamber of Commerce soul ' said on July 21, 1969: © ug will be: able to become aH West German industry. 9s years before that the newspaper Industrierkuniet (icouth t it spluttered with delig fc capil rica is a heavenly place vestments.” jade? Meanwhile ships heavily he pr uranium sail.one @ : rts; t South Africa to BS Le which USA and Canada, W! Germal pathies for the West upp! NATO, do not want tO 5 iipolt ig concentrated uranium one til? being any control ove Fed.” of this ore (in its issue ) f Frankfurter Allgemein® 110 es that they demanded é! the plutonium -produce® col af of utilization of wee me) f accounting”). An ro laaae chase of e oral” we re nium all sorts of difficult tors Pr ( And this when for the Tine to be built before 197 need, according tO Ne tallic about 25,000 tons of ™” ora Now thanks to the © the complaisant Sout ities this question cording to the assura 7 African Financial Gaze oh one yh get so much uranium os, re | of it will be used in T°) age rest “will be kept oo” ut of strategic consid p ‘ It should be added © jie colin Bik oping just as quickly F the RS si between the FRG 4? the exP® jah field of rocketry- At retori® a soi ; proving ground near P ymed! a remote rocket bas of tions a rf West Africa prepara’ patti olth made with the most © 4g of pul pu of the FRG for the t€5 "rast ul range missiles Harp th Asti st if least, it is also in 5 si FRG: } cooperation with th guctiOn st wh been organized the ator” oat provement of the & ‘ iy covered as a resu Z e of the chemical comehe seco” 3 dustrie in the end © ih Meh War 1s : fac ait al Y e Such are some of a the xis wo give one an idea ae tora sued by the Bonn-Pr FRO: oth being forged 20% . e facing is In the light of thes the FR 5 tly i absolutely ole * rs goiné vilishly persiste?™ ~ 055!) the possible and eve? ime of - gl? fere with the COM atio# on the non-pro fer weapons.