The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-06
than was provided by the Pots dam Agreement" he said.
Wants Unity for Germany

Wants Unity for Germany
 Byrnes proposed that "in time" Germany should be given an honor able place among the members of the United Nations.
 Byrnes said the German people would have to share the hardships which Nazi aggression imposed on Europe. But, he said, the Potsdam Agreement enviSaged an economical ly united and self-sustaining Ger many, and this has not been &C., complished.
 Germany must be given chance to export goods in order to import enough to, make her economy self sustaining" Byrnes said. Germany is a part of Europe and recovery in Europe, and particularly in the ad- joining states, will be slow indeed if Germany with her great resources of iron and coal is turned into a poor house."
 After a long review of the fail ure to unify German economy, in which he clearly placed the blame squarely at the door of Russia and France, Byrnes dismissed the Allied Control Council in Berlin as an organ which is neither governing Germany nor allowing Germany to govern itself"
 Invites Opponents
 Byrnes called for central German administrative agencies for finance, transportation, communications, postal service, agriculture, industly and foreign trade. All these, he said, should be set up without delay, and he again invited Russia and France to join with the U. s. and Britain in their economic cooperation.
 But he made 1t clear that "n complete unifcation cannot be se- cured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification.
 Byrnes said the Potsday Agree ment was being violated in its pol1- tical as well as it's economic claus es. While the agreement looked to- ward political decentralization and the development of local democracy, he said, it did not outlaw German central government for all time.
 |" It is the view of the American government" Byrnes said, that the German people, throughout Germany under proper safeguards, should now be given the primary responsibility for the running Of their own affairs"
 Political Future Dim
 "Tt was never the intention Of the American government to denyA to the German people the right to man. age their own internal affairs as soon as they were able to do so in democratic way with genuine re- spect for human rights and funda- mental freedoms" he said.
 Byrnes said the purposes of the occupation continued to be de- mtlitarization ana identification. But. he added, "more than year has passed since hostilities ceased and Germany's political future must be clarified.
 '"The millions of German people should not be forced to live in doubt as to their fate" he said. It is the view of the American government that the Allies without delay should make clear to the German people the essential terms of the peace settlement which they expect the German people to accept ana oo- serve.
 "Itis our view that the German people should now be permitted ana helped to make the necessary pre- parations for the setting up Of a democratic government which can accept and observe those terms
 Does Not Want Armies
 Byrnes said the U. s. does not believe that Large armies Of allen soldiers or alien bureaucrats, how ever well motivated and disciplined are in the long run the most re- liable guardians of another coun- try's democracy"
 Byrnes blueprinted his proposed provisional government for Ger many with these principles and oo- servations:
 1.-"All that the Allied gov ernments can and should do is to lay down the rules under which German democracy can govern itself. Allied occupation forces should be limited to a number sufficient to see that those rules are obeyed."
 2.-"Progress has been made in
 the American zone in developing local and state self-government ln Germany, and the American gov- ernment believes that similar progress is possible in all zones"