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would be adjusted so as to give the
new German state, Of which Western
Prussia would form a part, an area
of the old Corridor.
Winchell and Clifton Fadiman and Rex
Stout, the latter two being members Of
the hardheaded Society for the Pre-
vention Of World War III.
Never again." Nicer writes, must We
be deluded into nisplacing responsible
ity for German aggression. 1t is not the
leader Of the day, whether he be Charlie
magne, Barbarossa, Frederick Wilhelm
the Great Elector, Frederick the Great,
Bismarck, the Kaiser or Hitter who
wages war against mankind. 1t is the
German people Conditioned by centur-
les of false indoctrination-of a mad
philosophy, of an absurd 'soil-blood'
racial theory, of a mystical paganism,
the German people have ever been arch
conspirators against civilization. They
have deliberately plotted to destroy it
and subdue all mankind to serf-
DOM
Indictment Of People.
This is the greatest indictment of a
people in all history. But it is the truth.
Unless we recognize it as such, we will
be unable to cope with the German
problen-and that problem has been,
and will continue to be, the greatest
threat to future peace. For defeat will
az tIo Hoiy do
termined criminality. They will force
war upon the world again and again.
Such succeeding effort comes fright
fully closer to success. :"
Such writer's do not for a moment
overlook the fact that Germany has
produced great liberal intellectuals,
great artists, Lessings and Beethovens,
Goethes and Holderlins, Kans and Schil-
lers. But they insist that the demo-
cratic elements have ever been swept
aside by the popular tides Of aggression
within the country.
The stark outline of Germanic mill
tarism in the last 30 years bears wit
ness to the fundamental nature of the
problem: 1864, aggression against Den
mark; 1866, the war against Austria;
1870, the Franco Prussian War; 1911,
the Agadir incident that almost cast all
of Europe into war; 1914, World War I,
and the present war. In the face of
this sordid background, the Allies are
determined once and for all to end the
German menace.
John G. Winant, United States Am
bassador to Great Britain, presented
the American suggestions to the COM
mission after discussions with President
Roosevelt and officials of the State De-
partment during his recent visit to
don that the American proposals in
clude the following recommendations:
(a) abolition of German war industries,
Co rigid postwar control by the Allies
Of Germany's chemical and metallurgi-
cal industries, Co elimination of the
German aviation industry, (d) sharp
supervision over Germany's interna-
tional trade and foreign financial in
vestments and (e) institution of
long range program of re-education.
Boundary Changes Approved.
There is indication also that the
United States made clear its willingness
to acquiesce in boundary readjustments.
as distinguished from any radical dis
memberment plan. Apparently there
would be no objection on our part to
giving all or most OF East Prussia to Po-
land, which in turn would lose Eastern
Poland as far as the Curzon Line to Rus
sia-the area wrested from the Soviet
Union after the last war.
The final draft of the American pro-
posals is said to have contained no
major provision of the Morgenthau plan,
which aroused gale of controversy.
Undoubtedly there has been much un-
just distortion of the ideas first pro-
pounded by the aniable Secretary of
the Treasury, due in large part to the
secrecy that surrounded them, but it is
generally agreed that the plan did call
for the partitioning of Germany into at
least two independent states, which
would be deindustrialized and reduced
partly to an agricultural economy. In
addition the highly industrialized Rhine
land would have been severed from the
Reich and put under indefinite interna-
tional control, with its present German
population compressed into the new
German states.
Discussing this plan a few weeks ago,
Colunnist Dorothy Thompson said: "At
this point can only ask: Have we gone
crazy?" The Morgenthau plan, she
went on, is not original There is a
model for it. It is the Nazi plan for de-
feated countries. It would re-
quire Nazi methods and a Nazi men
tality to carry it out" Miss Thompson
is one of the sponsors Of the previously
noted American Association for DEM
ocratic Germany, whose roster of off,
cials also includes such distinguished
intellectuals as Dean Christian Gauss
Of Princeton University and Reinhold
Neibuhr, Missouri professor Of ap-
piled Christianity at the Union Theo-
logical Seminary.
Standing In an theological juxtaposi-
ton to this association, spokesmen for
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