Evening star., 1947-03-16
France Asks Big 4 to Disperse
Germans to Cut War Potential;
Marshall Calls Plan Realistic
BidouIt Urges Forced
Emigration to Slash
Population Density
By the Associated Press

3D., MOSCOW, MAI. 10. - rTdIlCe
proposed tonight a startling
modern day exodus of Germans
from their defeated fatherland
in order to lower the German
war potential, and Secretary of
State Marshall said the plan
struck at the heart of the Ger
man problem.
Foreign Minister Georges Bidault
told the Foreign Ministers Council
that the Allies should undertake an
organized reduction of the popula-
tion through emigration from a
thickly settled Reich and said
France was prepared to take the
revolutionary step of absorbing Ger
mans into her own population.
He said France considered the
German population, which is much
denseI than her neighboring states,
a war potential that could be linked
with the German industrial po-
tential.
The days developments found
Gen. Marshall summoning 1t. Gen.
Lucius D. Clay from Germany to
consult on the German question,
while the Chinese announced out
right rejection of Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotovs plea for informal
Big Three discussions on China.
Call to See Stain Expected.
Veteran Moscow observers ex-
pected that Gen. Marshall and the
other Foreign Ministers would be
called to the Kremlin shortly to see
Prime Minister Stain. These re-
ports conceded with word that Re-
publican Senators in the United
States were urging that Gen. Mar
shall explain Americas policies in
the Mediterranean to the Soviet
leader.
Russia struck the first blow
against plans of the Western Allies
for a "federalized" Germany with
criticism of western land reorgani-
zation policies which the Russians
viewed as paving the way. for fed
eralization.
At the opening of today's meeting,
the longest of the conference, Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Bevin rep
rin1anded Soviet Deputy Foreign
Minister Andrei Vishinsky for his
insistence that Albania be permitted
to participate in drawing up OF the
German peace pact.
Earlier Mr.. Vishinsky had dead
locked the deputy foreign ministers
by demanding that the question be
tossed into the laps of the min
listers. Mr.. Bevin said he thought
it was entirely improper for one
deputy to break up the work OF the
three others "just because he did
not get his way" on one point.
Cites Population Density.
Mr.. Bidault made his sweeping
proposal for Germany by explaining
that with the return of expellees
from former parts of the Reich,
Germany would have a density OF
population of 1856 per square kllo-
meter to IS per square kilometer
for France and 62 for Poland. He
said this would be 40 more per
square kilometer than when Adolph
Hitler raised his cry for living
space"
This overpopulation, he con-
tended, was laying the SEEDS OF
new war and giving the Germans
the strength to conduct it.
Gen. Marshall declared that Mr..
Bidault's proposals, which included
three other points, had gone to the
heart of the matter in very realistic
fashion. The Frenchman's other
points we're:
1, No new transfer of German
minorities from other countries into
Germany would be permitted.
2. ANY such transfers now IN pro-
gress would be halted.
8. Any permanent settlement or
displaced persons in Germany would
he forbidden and their resettlement
tn other countries would be expe-
dited.
Marshall Reads 2 Statements.
Gen. Marshall read two prepared
statements dealing with problems on
displaced persons and territorial
reorganization inside Germany.
He said the United States was
fully supporting the international
Refugee Organization of the United
Nations and he did not think the
foreign ministers should interfere on
displaced persons, but leave the
problem to the IRO.
On territorial reorganization he
said there had been some admins
trative reorganization of states in
the American zone, but that these
NAV be changed again when Ger
many becomes a single political
unit.
He agreed tentatively with sug-
eestion from Mr.. Molotov, as did the
other ministers, that any territorial
changes in the future should be
made in accord with decisions OF the
Allied Control Council.
Mr.. Molotov asserted that num-
Der of territorial changes had been
made which were wrong because
they aimed at the liberalization OF