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tee events have co-joined to produce that light and ope that more will shortly be turned on.

g these events has been meeting of the milig, s6f-the Allied Control fusi-time at Frankfort. -of that historic get: |

‘ame statements that Eierably toward a firm ee program in Ger- fi secorid event was the

satement of Edwin W.

's President’s. personal wr on the Reparations 31, that German big + ould not be permitted or reorganize. Indeed, i declaration said spe- at heavy industry in ‘”@. Reich would be con- @welcome piece of pre a eh everyone hopes will

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Bd hopeful factor was | = of Justice Robert & the President on the trial of war ¢rim-

3 report was on the @ striking contrast -to| sson’s speech on April. @che American Society. ycional Law. In that @ had wxapped> the et of the trial of war 2.much.up in legal ‘ that it seemed it.

, Possible ever to bring s and von Keitels-and

* rial. Now we obscrve | ™ to be a decidedly dif_. @ tude, althdugh. the ickson’s report would better if “they were

| with dispatch- into

ning and hawinge up 3s. already «given new e German. industrial- ce “big bugs” in the | )spiracy. What else a the audacity of one -p ¢lan in petitioning in the American ore the Krupp prop- “se Nazi overlords?

STIGNS =e overshadowing ques- ‘n the German scene r not American mon- > always favored the | 2y will be able to put ure on the Anglo- # ccupation authorities — ae German war crim- g:rty and skins. The gtion has been as to | working together of ar, particularly with nent of the true trade anti-fascist people’s @s to aid them within = vould destroy the sm as per the Yalta

©: specific contribution ‘Gregory K. Zhukov Yr course of conduct @ehted the meeting of ‘military chiefs at : June 10. Amid mili- Sitry the representa- ‘Allied Control Coun- 2 Soviet Union, the f«s and Great Britain | Eisenhower’s head- |: jth an encouraging #reement apparent.;| mbolized by the pres= the Soviet Order of ashe Allied command- Fin the Western. Front.: ns featured by - Zhu- 1 to the Allies to

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guarantee the world of tomor- row against war and for the speedy trial of the war criminals. With these appeals there was linked the news, released by Zhu- kov’s consent in Berlin, thatthe Soviet occupation authorities had. authorized the re-creation of all anti fascist people’s - organiza-’ tions and genuine trade unions’

in that part of Germany under their control.

This represented tremendous news, justifying more display than it got in the commercial press. It has long been apparent to those thinking the matter out that. the rebuilding of the Ger- man working class would be the great guarantee of the revamp- ing of German life. The Nazi “unions” would have to be wiped out and genuine workers’ trade. unions restored, with freedom of. all anti-fascist organizations under military ob- servation.

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The revised trade unions would be a big aid in wiping out the “werewolves” and in annihilat- ing the last remnants of the Nazi regime or those who aided it _secretly....They would be a source of cooperation to which the Allied. Control. Council could look for the’revival of democratic life and practices among the That ~ expectation,, a sound one, was based on the character of the organized work- ing people as the most funda- mental enemies of fascist oppres- sion.

Zhukov’s announcement of June 10, then, brings a dynamic possibility into the German pic- ture—trade unions _and people’s organizations, carefully scanned for provocateurs, of course, as they grow stronger, but capable of killing fascism at its roots in the former Reich. © :

It’s regrettable that the Ang | lo-American authorities, on their part, do not seem to have been ready to make a similar an- nouncement. There has been none, at least, forthcoming. Inde- pendent political activity seems to be prohibited or at least

frowned upon in Allied occupied territory.

A little thought on the matter will lead the American people to hope that a similar policy to that followed by the Soviet Union will become the rule. with the Anglo American authorities as well. That attitude, roughly pro- ceeds mercilessly to try and punish the Nazis and their allies. Zhukov made a point to state on June 10 that the Soviets had preceeded to put on trial and punish war- criminals, appealing that such procedure prevail ev-

“people’s “morale and tions», They are the -great’ anti--

jit°gets away to ‘from “the legalistic red tape with

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: vival Of Trade Unions Gives pe For Democratic Germany

"By LOUIS F. BUDENZ ids. of obscurity. still hang over the whole matter of: #o-American attitude’on the disciplining of Germany,

of iron against the Nazis, the So- wiet representatives seek to-en- courage the building up of. the | organiza-

dotes to fascism.

Hithérto the Anglo-American authorities on the war trials com- mission have been as slow -in moving against the Goerings and von Keitéls and Krupps as the military ' representatives have been to. allow trade union ex- pression. Justice Jackson’s re- portsis.a good one, then, in that : some degree

which certain selfish interests were Strangling the war trials.

Jacksons’ report smashes the idea that the Nazi leaders can- not be tried, since they are heads of states. That has been a falsé Municheering dodge, particularly popular in London. Nazi ag- gression in itself, the Justice says, is a crime against inter- national law. Those high figures who formulated such criminal policies must face punishment.

NO NAMES GIVEN

The Justice’s report still falls short in that it deals only in generalities. It refuses to name any names. The American people are entitled to know when Goer- ing will be tried, and so with the heads of thee Nazi war machine, the members of the German gen eral staff and the big industrial- ists who conspired to= bring ~Hit- ler to power .and +to impose his bloody rule on the. world. What, too, is to be done about making

Franco disgorge Laval? And so with.other Nazis and quis- lings. .

The people can be strengthen- ed in, their determination to see that fascism is wiped out from these current events. The report of Jackson and the statement by Pauley came about because the people want to hear such reports and pledges. If the Ger man industrialists, those giant monopolists who nursed Hitler into power and gave him every aid to cover the world with blood, were allowed to escape punish- ment and confiscation, then the American people would recog- nize such action as a betrayal. The fact that the President’s representative, Pauley, plans to “remove or destroy” German heavy industry is healthy and refreshing. What the people Want to see is some of these pledges—all of them — carried cut as set down as the goal, of the agreement at Yalta.

' These recent events give a tip to American labor, in particular to “say its piece” for the revival of genuine trade unions in Ger- many, the resuscitation of demo- cratic people’s ‘organizations along with the crushing of the Nazi remnants. The foundation Stone of such a course of action, labor can also stress, must be the continued unity of the Big Four—and above all, the deep ening of American-Soviet friend- ship and understanding.

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