Detroit evening times., 1943-08-26
Reds Plan
For GERMANY
Under Attack
Influential Men Lacking
Among IFS Backers
BY PAUL MALLON

lbl III oul NtI anu peace Itld-
tionS with Russia is the Moscow
National Committee for Free
Germany
The nub OF Our difficulties can
he found IN the not-very-widely
publiciZed lndentity of that COM
mltee and It's manifesto of four
weeks ago.
A cabled report just received
in official quarters here specifi-
cally identifies all 30 members
of the committee. Several arc
well-known German Communists
who escaped Nazidom in the
Red purgeS.
Others are German army leu
tenants and majors mo colonels
or generals), a man who says
he is Bismarck's grandson. a
Berlin publisher, A postal in
Spector. school inspectors. work
erS in the lumber, mechanical
and building trades. two women
Rcich>teg members. a youth
leader -aHG-StraHsely- enough
- an evangelical minister and a
theology student
Their manifesto urges Free
Germany. but does not contain
the specifications As TO what
kind of freedom the Moscow
committee wants Our demo-
cratic freedom or what the Rus
SLAMS call freedom. whether a
Russian democracy or socialism,
or democratic freedom Of enter
prise
TT DOES say the committee
L wants emancipation OF all
strata of German people" tpre-
Sumably not Just peasants and
unloniStS, but also m d d e
classes. II wants opportunity
for Germany 10 express its will.
The only anti Democratic
phrase IN the document is an
expression against a return 10
the Weimar Republican regime
a single parliament system.
with. a responsible prime minis
ter. which developed some de-
feels when tried after the last
war.
Now this proposal i made 10
gs, not as an authentic or Off
Cial proposition. but As a 'front.'
PACED idea IN the sponsored
Moscow newspaper Pravda. II
offers nothing that can be CO.
operated with or even rejected.
Yet our liberals are running
around now shouting with in
CreaSlng ferOclty that our state
department should have coop
Grated more with Stain. and
they should cooperate more
now How are YOU going 10 CO.
operate with propaganda
shadow?
THEY point to the vacant
Il chair Stain should have oC-
cupied in Quebec. But how
many vacant chairs are there in
Moscow which we do not oc-
cupy?
They publicly fail Americans
for daring TO criticize Russia,
but they never say anything
about Russia criticiZing us for
second front or lend-lease fail
urcS.
They always ask why does
not Roosevelt cooperate with
Stalin-never ask why Stain
does not cooperate with Roose-
welt.
Their line Of agitation is only
confusing a situation which al
ready is confused enough, IN
view of the opposite meanings
Of such words as democracy,
republic and freedom IN
Moscow and Washington.
THERE is a way in which
Il American Russian relations
can be mutually arranged-but
not the way Of the Moscow COM
mittee Of German freedom or in
the appeaSement way of Ameri-
can liberals. This is the way Of
mutual, not one-sIded. response
billty.
There is certain definite
length 10 which we can both go,
as people dealing fairly with one
another. This common ground
can be found. but il obviously
lies in such directions as the eX-
tinction OF Germany and Japan,
the whole Axis, in valid trade
agreements. and only mutual
understandings in the political
realm which both sides can be
expected TO abide with.
II cannot he achieved by ap-
peasement or by Washington
officials rushing around eagerly
10 satisfy whatever propaganda
pressure emanates from Moscow
in the days news.
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