The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-26


 both feet planted firmly 10 feet iu the air, and driven off into thV beautiful blue from there. FoUl Freedoms, Atlantic Charter, euua sharing of the worlds raw mate. rials and trade--all magnificent a, to principle and things you cant dispute any more than the cesir. ability of truth, beauty, virtue, the beautitudes and the 10 command. ments. But they still don't tell the Germans what's gonna happen te them next.
 You may search the transcript oi U. s. propaganda broadcasts to the Germans to find what specific hopes can be held out to the Ger man people, but In vain. The one i definite utterance that means any thing came out of the Roosevelt Churchill Casablanca conferences which decided that the Axis powers must submit to unconditional sur. render. Okay, But what thenp JAP PROBLEM SIMPLE
 The problem of post-war Japan is Q cinch, if the United Nations want to be tough about 1t. Restore the Japanese to that blissful state of isolation In which Admiral Peary found them and let 'em stay there another 60O0 years, They won't be missed and the world will he better oil without them. But handling the Germans won't be so simple, though there are those who believe that the only good German is a dead German and the only thing to do with Germany is break her up in little pieces like Humpty Dumpty which can never be put together again, Something of that sort was tried after the last war and, if memory is correct, there was q thing called the Polish Corridor which didn't seem to work. No, Germany Is Q tougher nut to crack.
 Maybe it isn't anything to try the jaws of the Anglo American pincerS. Maybe the Soviet will get to the Rhine before the British U. s. second front expeditionary force can reach 1t, 30 there's noth- ing for our side to worry about. preposterous, of course.
 The Foreign Policy Association recently put out Q good study of this whole problem of "What Future for Germany" written by its editor, Vera MicheliS Dean, Her pamphlet is by no means conclusive, but 1t does ask Q lot of questions which other people should be thinking about.
 QUESTIONS ON GERMANY
 Can the Germans he won away from HitlerP Any organized oppo. Sition to Hitler. in or out of Ger many, Is today practically non- existent. There is mass hatred of those elements which have been under the Hitler heel, but that does not make a government and no one would consider leaving 0ermany's future to the races or creeds which have been most victimized.
 How shall Germany be punishedp win 1t be sufficient to punish Nazi party leaders? Or should the Ger man army itself be destroyed-not merely beaten as 1t was in the last war. Must Germany pay repara- tions? In the last war she paid only $2 billion. and suspended payments l9 years before the date called for in the Versailles Treaty.
 Should Germany be permitted to have a revolution? Should the United Nations adopt hands off policy after the war. permitting the German people to form Q new gov- ernment of their own devising? Would not such Q government tend to be purely communicate, the force of communism being the strongest of the anti-Hitler movements? And have not the English-speaking na- tions something to fear in that possibility?
 Should the United Nations police Germany? Is the establishment of a postwar military government ecessary to maintain order throughout Germany? What share of such military government should go to the United States? Great Britain? Russia?
 Should German labor be forced to rebuild cities of Europe which her army has destroyed?
 Can Germany be reformed in the sense of re-educated? Hitler now holds unquestioning loyalty of to- days German youth. tomorTow's German citizens. Must Germany be policed till that generation is dead and Q new generation, educated in democracy. takes over?
 Before worrying about the rest of the world. decide what you would do with Germany.