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A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER
1013 13th St. N.W. (Zone 5)
By and Large, the
Phone DIstrict 7777
Metropolitan Washington: Carrier. 18e
Per Week; 78c Per Month. By Mall:
the Year, $7.50: Foreign Mail Rate:
Month, 80c. For 6 Months. $4.25; By
$1.25 Per Month; $15.00 Per Year.
Jchn T. O'Rourke Matt Meyer
Germans
Dislike Us
Editor
Business Manager
"Give light and the people will find their
own wav."
By LUDWELL DENNY
TECHNICALLY the Allies still have power
RIPPS - HOWARD
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1949
Scripps-Howard Staff Writer.
to correct this situation. In abolishing
ARANKFURT, Oct. 11-West Germany is
their military -governments, and turning
getting out of hand. Now that the
over internal authority to the Bonn govern-
Allies have scpapped their military govern-
ment, they retained full reserve powers.
ments and turned over internal responsi-
But if the military governments could not
bility to the Bonn regime, it is much harder
do the job in the face of mass resistance to
for them to do anything
democratic methods, obviously the much
about it.
smaller and weaker High Commission sec-
There are exceptions of
retariats are less able to observe adequately
course-heroic ones. But
and advise-much less enforce. Not after
by and large, the German
the, Germans have taken over, as they now
attitude is a mixture of
have.
arrogance and blackmail.
Anyway, the Allies are often divided-
They don't like us. We
and the Germans, having caused the di-
get no credit for liber-
vision, always know it. By playing the
ating them from Nazism,
Allies against each other, the German offi-
and little appreciation for
cials usually get their own way.
feeding them since. They
The fault here is not with the Allied Higk
say our "crimes" offset
Commissioners-a excellent men-so much
theirs, and that we are
as with Washington, London and Paris
Mr. Denny
exploiting them now for
Behind the facade of Allied unity. agree-
entirely selfish purposes.
ments, there is too often conflict between a
The typical German official's reaction
French firm policy, an American soft policy,
runs something like this: "You have got to
and wobbling British aims-one day unrea-
go on subsidizing us or our people will go
sonably rigid and the next belly-crawling
Red or Nazi again. We are boss now-if
for German favor.
you try to interfere with us we will make
Whenever the Allies waver, the Germans
a deal with Stalin. You need us more than
resort to propaganda and direct pressure in
we need you. So watch your step."
America, Britain and France. They use
business lobbies, trade union lobbies, church
[HHERE is very little democracy here in
lobbies and others to play on the gullibility,
spirit and less in action. The traditional
sentimentality or supposed self-interest of
German regimentation is rampant. The
similar groups abroad to "save" the mis-
goose-step operates in the home, in the
treated Germans from the "wicked" occu-
school, in business, in the political parties,
pation powers.
in government.
While ex-Nazis are welcomed back whole-
sale into the bureaucracy, the courts, schools
NEVERTHELESS the situation is not as
and commercial control, citizens who served
hopeless as it seems. One favorable
in the de-Nazification agencies are ille-
factor in the revival of German nationalism
gally boycotted from jobs. Those who have
is that it is obvious. It is so shrill it sounds
worked most sincerely with the Allies to
lay a democratic foundation here are de-
its own warning.
spised as traitors to Germany and collab-
Presumably the Allied peoples will be
orators with the enemy.
less tempted now to withdraw the military
The Bill of Rights, written into state con-
occupation, or to write blank checks for
stitutions. by Allied requirement, is almost
German nationalists as anti-Russian aides
a dead letter to police who search without
Presumably the Allies will be more alert
warrants, to courts and officials who do not
now to German efforts to regain control of
believe in civil liberties, and to a public
the Ruhr, and next to get planes and an
ignorant of its legal rights.
army.
Inadequate reform laws, reluctantly
Four years after Hitler, German national-
passed under Allied pressure on the states,
ism remains an Allied security problem-
are sabotaged or simply ignored by enforce-
and all the more because Stalin is waiting
ment officials.
to use the Germans:
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