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careers as professional soldiers
were not necessarily and finally
terminated. Their treatment may
have been in fact merely sports
manship to a loser and chivalry to
the vanquished. But it has suited
remarkably what these German
nationalists most want to believe
that they will live to
fight another war in which Ger
many will recover her territory
and her greatness.
What is happening on the sur
face confirms in every way what
can only be inferred about what
is happening under the surface. In
the open the Anglo-Soviet duel Is
being fought out through the Ger
man political parties. The Rus
SLAMS, of course, are sponsoring
and promoting the Communist
Party. Its most prominent leader
is Wilhelm PECK; it's director, l
am reliably informed, is Walter
Ulbricht, a former officer on Mar
shall Zukov's staff, whose wife has
been one Of the Marshall's secre-
%taries. The object of the Com
munist Party is to swallow the
Socialist Party, and thus to unite
under n command the whole
German working class. In h e
Soviet Zone and in Berlin, this
has been accomplished. The Brit
ish, on the other hand, are spon-
soring the social Democratic
party under the leadership of
DR.. Schumacher, who resists the
fusion of the Socialists with the
Communist Party. They appear to
be thinking wishfully that the
British Labor Party can resurrect
the second Socialist International
to combat the third Communist
International.
The most noteworthy fact about
this political contest is that it is
turning into an auction to gain
the favor of patriotic German Ma
t~ionalist. The Russians, bidding
among the Germans for popular
support of the Communists, are
having to take the position that
Germany should not be dismem-
bered, certainly not in the west,
and that the unity of Germany
must be restored. This is, of course,
bit difficult to reconcile with the
Of German territory by
Poland. But the German Com
munists, who are now as always
Nationalist, have a very
good private answer to this anom-
ally. 1t is that in the end a
Soviet Germany and a Soviet Rus
STA will once again partition Po-
land, and that this will happen
when war with the Western Pow
ers is Imminent.
The British, bidding for German
support of their Social Democrats,
are also having to offer unity to
the Germans. They are meeting
the Russian bid. As a result the po-
"re-education'' of Germany,
about which we have heard so
now consists in teaching
that by exploiting h e
competition between Britain and
Russia, making the two rivals bid
against each other, they can re-
the unity Of Germany and
make themselves the decisive mill
tary factor in the European and
balance Of power! The walls
Of Berlin are covered with Com
munist posters, ostensibly calling
for the unity of the Socialists and
Communists, which have as their
'Durch Einheit Zum Sieg"
Through unity to victory. These
are the very words, and were
chosen because they were the very
words, the trumpets and the ban
ners - Of German nationalism,
pan-GermaniSm, and indeed of
Nazism.
Our friends in Moscow and in
london are acting as if they had
earned nothing about Germany.
For here they are, returning to the
'ery policies which brought them