Evening star., 1944-01-22
3 British Thinkers
Critical Of Proposals
For Postwar Reich
BY the Associated Press.

emanuel ShlnWell, Laborite men,
ber Of Parliament, said: II plead
with all upon whose shoulders rests
the responsibility Of creating post
war foreign relations not to force
the pace"
These were the reactions of three
British thinkers to a recent pro-
posal that Germany be totally dis
armed, stripped of her war fac
tories and otherwise prevented from
organizing for another war.
The proposal was one point of
: three-point program for dealing
with the defeated Reich which was
written by political observer under
S the pseudonym Victory" recently
and published by the London Daily
Mail
Published in American Edition.
The Daily Mail likewise published
the reactions
The Victory" plan and the views
Of Mr. Shaw, Mr.. Shinwell and Lord
Vansittart were published in the
transatlantic edition of the Daily
Mail, a weekly digest of the news
papers articles for American
readers
The three point program was this: !:
l. Germany shall be prevented
from waging another war.
2. Germany will assume a place
in the economic life of Europe in
Just proportion to her size and popu-
lation. She will be encouraged in
such fields as industry, science,
scholarship and art to contribute to
the prosperity of the world
3. Germans convicted of individual
crimes and Germans In responsible
positions who influenced and en-
couraged the initiation OF the war
will be punished.
Would Be Totally Disarmed.
Under the first article OF the plan
the author wrote:
Germany shall be totally dis
armed. The German Army, Navy
and Air Force will be dissolved.
All factories producing explo-
sives, gas, aircraft or materials and
weapons of war of any nature will
be dismantled or destroyed.
Allied troops will occupy Ger
many for one year after her sur
render. ="
In event Germany is found to be
manufacturing war weapons, the
program said, European control
commission will give German au-
thorities seven days to destroy the
contraband or their destruction will
be effected by bombing
The second article proposes that
the Allied nations set up govern
ment for Germany at the end of the
one-year military occupation which
will govern the nation for three
years, at which time the German
people may elect whatever govern
ment they wish"
Would Guarantee Free Speech.
The Allied instituted government
will guarantee freedom of speech,
freedom of religion and freedom of
the press"
Another point under this section
was that Germany will retain all
territory held by it in 1887 with the
exception Of East Prussia" to 20 to
Poland within four years of the
armiStice.'
The final section said that in ac-
cordance with the terms of the
agreement reached at Teheran by
Stain, Churchill and Roosevelt, all
Germans who have committed atroc-
tiles in countries occupied by them
will be brought back to the scene
OF their crimes and judged on the
spot by the peoples whom they have
outraged
Other responsible Germans
whose influence, whether in po-
litical, military or civilian capacity.
encouraged the war" will be "ex-
lied to Siberia for the duration of
their lives under arrangements
made by the Soviet Union
Called Deliberately Wicked.
Mr.. Shaw described the first ar
ticle of the plan calling for total
disablement Of Germany as cow
ardly rubbish. impudent. pretentious
and so deliberately wicked that if
it were not. fortunately, quite i'm
possible to put into practice it would
justify holy alliance against any
power giving the slightest counte-
nance to it, +''
When this war is over, we must
either admit that it has reduced war
as an institution to absurdity, folly
and unbearable mischief and abolish
it, or else be prepared to fight Ger
many again not only once every 20
years but any day in the week
If there is to be disarmament,
all must disarm. And nobody will. :"
Mr.. Shaw said the second section
dealing with the economic condition
of postwar Germany was "superflu-
Gus, as Germany has already as
sumed place in the economic life
of Europe and led the modern world
in industry, science, scholarship and
art"
Article Ill. he said, "is just as
thoughtless as the preceding two"
Germans convicted of individual
crimes he continued, will, of
course, be punished; as they always
are. So are Englishmen, Russians
and Americans.
Opposed to EnSlavement.
But If, in addition to this. Ger
mans in responsible positions who
influenced and encouraged the
initiation of war are to be exiled to
Siberia. why are our own militarist
imperialists to be left at home? =" y"
LAS to atrocities, we have rained
zoo, 900 tons of bombs on German
cities"
Mr. Shinwell in commenting on
the plan said the Allies were fight
ing Ito destroy Nazi tyranny, not
to enslave the German people,
This does not mean,' he added,
that the German people should
escape responsibility for Nazi crimes.
But to control permanently the po-
itical system of Germany and re-
mold the lives of her people is a
task beyond the powers of the United
Nations even If they remain
united"
Lord Vansittart said he was in