The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-08-01


sional soldiers of Britain, Russia
and this country decided after
studying the problem of peace In
Europe from practical aspect UNI
tinged by sentimentality. These
Reichswehr chiefs want TO cut Ger
many's losses. play safe. and get her
out OF bad business with at least a
shirt. But Hitler wants a desperate
last stand, n gamble that the Allies
will tire of blood-letting and ease
of.
But once again, the Corporal OF
Berchtesgaden Is befoollng his
country. For the fact Is that the
longer he fights, the better the
chance Germany viii lose her shirt.
Indeed. If some people like the Poles.
the Belgians. the Czechs and the
French had their way, Germany
would be fiayed alive. The longer
Hitler fights, the sitter his peace
terms viii be. Already they are likely
TO be very stiff.
NOBODY WANTS
TIE GERMANS
Representatives here OF Poland,
what Is now German soil-but no
France. Holland and other victim
lied countries will want some Of
Germans. They will make strong
argument in logic and justice.
That would mean large inter-
changes Of population. IL would ring
Germany with nations all strength
ened by addition of soil to which
some have excellent claims, some
not. and by more homogeneous pop
ulations. Germans and Poles, for in
stance, would be interchanged as
they should have been and were not
after 1918. The Turks and Greeks
have shown how this Is practicable
and makes bad neighbors good ones.
More Germans would be cram
med into less space - the Czechs
want the Sudetenland but without
the Sudeten Germans who now in
habit II. Few nations are likely to
welcome Germans as immigrants.
But belief grows that the Germans
will still be able to make q good iiv-
ing II they try. For instance. con-
vertlng some Of their enormous and
unproductive state-owned forests to
farmland and by tilling their soil
so well that it produces as much as
does Hollands. which Is only 10
per cent as good but nevertheless Is
made TO outstrip Germany's.
Germany viii have 10 farm more
II the military men have their way.
They would strip her not alone Of
Army. Navy and Luftwaffe-espe-
cially LuftwafTe-but OF the means
TO build them up again. All mach.
ines. tools. and factories meant to
make arms or anything like arms
would be wrecked.
20 YEARS or RE-EDUCATION
To insure that Germany will keep
the peace In future viii mean dis
armament and re-education. That
will probably take 20 years under
an Allied armed guard--also a lot
OF help from a large Allied civilian
reconstruction organization.
Those views are not all official nor
officially adopted but they may well
prevail. Some well-informed Amer
leans hold them and so do many
Russians who are very realistic and
on some counts would go farther
than we.
As 10 reconstruction. some British
civilians want 10 welcome Germany
again more quickly TO fun partner
ship In world endeavor-party from
what they hold TO be humanitarian
motives. partly as a possible Gus
toner for themselves and a counter
poise TO Russia.
The military men say there can be
no peace with Germany II before she
Is eleansed Of Nazis and re.educated
she Is allowed to have q gun or an
airplane. Or any other weapon or
means TO produce 1t. Later, perhaps
20 years later, she may be gradually
permitted TO build up small police
force but under supervision Tar
closer than after 1918, Whether the
military men who are Tealists viii
win out over politicians and propa-
gandists already being heard re-
mains 10 be seen,