The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Today And Tomorrow
By WALTER

the organization of a coalition of
"democracies" against the Soviet
Ualon, but the revival of Europe
through a developing union of the
nations of Europe.
There r many reasons for the
~unification of Europe-some of
which were restatad this week by
Mr.. Churchill with all the pcmp
and circumstance OF his grandest
eloquence. But there are also spe-
cific American reasons, arrived at
independently and empirically, for
promoting unification in Europe.
The first has to do with the
coming demand upon us-ss the
British loan and the various ,other
credits and donations u out in
the next few months-for a large
contribution of new dollars to save
Europe from collapse and to bring
about that reconstruction which
has thus far failed.
This new American contribution
will need to be large by postwar
standards: the authorizations will
need to be somewhere in the order
Of four to seven billions annually
for at least two or three years.
We may assume that Congress
will not vote these authorizations,
nor would the people approve
them, if they are to be used to
make doles to the various govern
ments to tide them over for a
little while longer. Nor will the
sci, respecting people Of Europe
wish to receive American help in
a form which makes them depen-
cents living on remittances from
the United States.
But i, under the leadership of
the two principal European states
Great Britain and France -
agreements c2r be reached which.
coordinate and rationalize the
production plans, the export and
import programs, and consolidate
the dollar deficits of many Euro
pean countries, the position here
would be quite different.
The American people would
then feel that the condition of
new money would be an invest
ment i n the reorganization of
Europe, and that it offered a good
prospect of political peace and of
economic solvency. Thew would be
contributing the new funds to a
new entity-to an organization of
Europe that wss helping itself and
was likely to succeed.
A second American reason has
to do with the Germany problem.
Here we now see what perhaps we
did not see at Postdam and even
at Stuttgart, that the amputation
of the eastern territories of Ger
many by the Soviet Union and
Poland makes it impossible to re-
store iii the rest of Germany a
unified national state governed by
national parties in a German leg
islature based on national cleo
tons.
For if we agree tc the political
of what remains of
Germany, this amputated Ger
many must inevitably, will inexo-
have as its dominating pur-
pose, as its own unifying princi-
pie, the recovery of the eastern
territories. No national party
could have any other national OBJ
jective. No German politician
could qualify as a patriot who
did not work for the restoration
of the unity of all the former
German lands.
Such. a Germany can never be
peaceable. For the lost provinces
can only be recovered by violence
by war in which the Germans
participate against Russia and
Poland, or by a deal between
Berlin and Moscow for another
partition of Poland. Logic, strate-
gy historic. experience, and also
s~ubterranean Communist
propaganda in Germany, all lead
to the conclusion that another
Rapallo agreement, another Rib
beatrop-Molotov pact, would be a
constant possibility to threaten the
peace of the world.
So when Mr.. Molotov accuses US
Of wishing to dismember Germany
and of opposing the national uni
fication of Germany, u answer
is that Germany has had a ire
mendous amputation, and that
German unity cannot now be re-
stored except by the partition OF
Poland. Therefore, though we
would like to rectify the German
Polish frontier somewhat to make
Germany more self-supporting,
We want the frontier to be per-
mar.ent after that. 1t cannot be
permanent if a partially united
Germany is forever working be-
hind the backs of the Poles, offer
ing Moscow the tempting prospect
of an alliance based on another
partition of Poland.
If Germany cannot be restored
safely as a unified state, then
there is no alternative but to do
what the French. have always
wanted, what in essence u gen.
eral view of Germany has always
required, what Mr.. Churchill call
ed for in his speech: to invite the
'various individual Germ a n
states" whic> are now cling
created, or rather revived, ito
take their place without pref
udice to any future question OF
German federation in the
council of Eurone."
Copyright, 1947, New York Tri-
bune Inc.
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