The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-26

AS an Am0rlcAn MeWepWpeT
 correspondent in Berlin from
 1919 to l9Al, slgrid Sehultz saw
 at first hand the events that led
 from World War ! Co World War
 n. And she saw the behind the. |. scenes preparation for the com-
 ing ''waF-ln- peace" that she warns
 may culmlnate h World War TIT.
 Thls ls the story of Germany'a
 plans to win the peace, plans that
 even now are being put Into cf-
 feet,
 A false peace is more dangerous than no peace ct all,
 Ever since the Germans suffered their first serious setbacks in Russ sia they have been launching one campaign for peace after another along tlasea different lines = eco" nemie, diplomatic, and military On our wisdom in seeing throuvh the false offers depends the duFa. hJity of the real peace,
 The ecoaUsGie campaign started fivst, to secure German acqulst' tiens and holdings throughout the world. Businessmen fron II. Ger" rlany or from oceI pied countries descended on towns in SwitzeE- land and spain Turkey and @we- den. In c lawyers office, Tor In. stance, e group of quislings would meet with one of these men, found Q holding company of some sort, and issue bearer certificates to specified individuals. Then they would all depart, leaving Q mimic mum of records of their transae: tons. But their purpose would have been accomplished. They had created iegalistlo caches for dishonestly acquired property which the German representatives meant to hold after the war, either direct. iy or indirectly.
 Other Germans Ltarted regular black markets in neutral countries. They came as "anti-NaSi refugees, and often told heart-rendering tales of NaN persecution, They brought jewels, shares In German and trench concerns, shares In foreign industries seized by the 0ermans Everything they had brought they sold cheapiy-they were refugees, and they had to live. Oddly enough many of them were the very men and wumen who had been the most fanatically Nazi when we used te meet them in Berlin as late as ie4i
 Tht people were not merely NaM rats fleeing the sinking ship Many Of them were sent by Berlin to do 6 dual Job: to get foreign cash which finances Nasi propaganda and purchases abroad, and to get investors interested in the welfare of German concerns.
 The second German peace osfen- slvc came to us in the persons ot several diplomats, businessmen and churchmen. l shall take one man frem . neutral country as their pros totype. ..
 Tn the fall of ie42 this impor- tant businessman arrived in AmeTi- ca with introductions from even more important personages and in- structlons to confer with leading bankers. He carried trial balloon a postwar, plan 10 division of world markets between Germany and the United States. If the United States would agree to the terms. Adolf Hit Ter would be dethroned, perhaps even handed over to the United Na- tions.
 Germany realized, this man said that with our tremendous economic machine we would need enormous markets. As for Germany, after her intense sufferings in this war, she would be content with very modest markets and business transactions.
 The visitor was asked what Ger many proposed to do about the countries she had conquered? Ger many was willing, he replied, to withdraw from her western con- quests, perhaps even from Norway bu. she insisted on retaining Poland CzechoslovalEia. Yugoslavia, and . great part of the Ukraine.
 Germany further insisted, accord Ing to the neutral" businessman, on keeping every economic holding ac- Quired through the years in France in Belgium, in Holland, and else. where, because Germany natural ly requires economic control of Eur ope"
 The emissary vainly waited for some encouragement: he received none. While he sat around here, his colleagues in q neutral coun- try in Europe became impatient They made the camc proposal tc Great Britain.
 The British told them the game wouldn't work. The Americans and the English compared notes. The trial balloons collapsed.
 The miIitaFlstS played another tune, a medley of several well-worn motifs-the strength of the German army. To the Russians tt was de- soribed as tho ''bulwark against ag- gresalon from the capltalistic conn- tries. which hate the home ce Goss- mnnislaa." The inference is that the German army loves Russia. Ee hos nhonan a Tatker unpleasant way ul
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