The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-26
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wherever l1lSy Gail 4A1o AouA WAN
and a roof, in patched up holes and
cellars. They have their rations
provided by the military govern
ments. They can live and even
work. They work for the Allies. OF
in the few industries which have
been reestablished, or in the little
miserably furnished shops, squalid
nachtlokalen might clubs) and
poverty : stricken restaurants In
which a kind of parody of the
normal metropolitan pattern has
been obstinately recreated.
The black market men and those
who have attached themselves to
the Allies have scrambled up above
the uniform low level. But for the
rest, Berlin is now a large, we'll
managed soup kitchen.
1t is a considerable achievement,
amid these ruins, to have org
anized even a soup kitchen IN
which the people r sufficiently
well fed to attempt to resume nor
NAL life. The organizers-the oc-
cupiers-live apart, in the suburbs.
There, only a little scared, stand
the ugly but luxurious houses Of
the bankers, industrialists, bureau
Gratis and party leaders who were
once the ruling class of Germany,
The old rulers have been killed, or
have moved into the cellar, or have
been sent to labor camps to ex.
plate the incapable crimes of the
Third Reich. The new rulers
! with a simple appropriateness
sleep in the vacated salons, ant
dine at the vacated tables of thu
men who led Germany to sham
and defeat.
1t is an unreal existence, giver
a strong colonial flavor by tn
sharp contrast between the. condi
ton of the alien rulers and the ma
tives who are ruled. There is some
thing of the Philippines in. tn
American sector, something i
Burma in the British. something o
Saigon in the French, and in tn
Russian, something of. what-Pe
land perhaps? Yet all work HARD
This is a crucial moment for tn
rulers and the ruled alike. I
the first year, the mere organize
ton of the soup kitchen which j
Germany today required all tn
available energy of all concerned
Now, however, it is necessary t
decide what the Germany of tn
future is to be like.
The Russians have always know
that they wanted Germany to b
an extension Of the Soviet state
Equally, the British have alway
wanted a buffer between them
selves and the Soviet power, Will
the French have always desired
That the German nation, still a,
most twice as numerous and nc
tentially three times as productiv
as their own, should be so weaken
ed that France would forever b
stronger than her enemy. But tn,
Americans have been confused
The United States has no mo-
aole public servant than the deput
military governor of GERMANY
Lieutenant General Lucius C. CLAW
who does the real work. But un
I'll now Clay has always been be
aeVlled by the conflict betwee,
those Americans who have wished
to punish Germany by PASTORAL
zatlon,' and those who have wish
ed to rebuild Germany as a fire.,
democracy, fit for free men to liv,
in.
The pastoralizers are fadin,
from the scene. Bernard Bern
STEM chosen representative O
former Secretary of the Treasur,
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.. arcl
enemy of German cartels. WIN
once said he could not see VIII,
America should not let the Soviet
TAKE over Germany, is now -;
prosperous corporation lawyer il
New York. His card of announce
ment emphasizes his former gov
ernmnet connections. And by ar
ood coincidence this hater of al
BUSINESS blgness has now applied
to secure German motion picture
theaters in the American zone fol-