Evening star., 1949-09-16
New German Republic
Promises Firm Stand
Against Communism
BY the Associated Press

BONN. Germany, Sept. 10
The West German republic today
appears on the way to becoming
one of the most strongly anti
Communist powers in Western
Europe.
= The leading parties are pledged
TO carry out Christian principles
in government. Its strongest
political group says its aim is to
"stem the rising tide of material
ism embodied in Russian COM
munisn."
The new government, headed by
DR.. Konrad Adenauer. as chan
cellor, and President Theodor
Heuss, is expected to be influenced
by the fact that they are backed
by millions of voters who are
regular churchgoers and who have
been communism at work in the
Eastern part of Germany, and
oppose it.
Prof. Heuss formally appointed
DR.. Adenauer chancellor today.
The Bundestag yesterday elected
him by a one-vote margin. DR..
Adenauer is scheduled to make
his policy statement and present
his cabinet in the Bundestag next
Tuesday.
Dedicated to Freedom.
The coalition parties are dedi-
Gated to principles of freedom and
liberty for the individual. They
favor an economy of free enter
prise. They stand for a federated
Western Europe and want Ger
many to be a member of such a
union.
The party that leads the gov
ernment coalition is the Christian
Democratic Union. It's policies
will dominate all fields of govern
ment.
To solve the political, social and
economic problems of a modern
state, it advocates:
In place of principles arising
from materialism. the principles
Of Christian ethics must prevail.
They must be dominant in the
reconstruction of the state :.
They must prevail in the rights
and duties of the individual for
economic and social life. for our
civilization and for the relations
of nations with one another. The
Christian Weltanschaung (way of
life) along guarantees, a true
and genuine democracy"
Full Socialism Opposed.
In its economic policy, the new
government will oppose out-and-
out Socialism. It believes in free
enterprise-but free enterprise
that does not strapgle the little
man.
The CDU's attitude has been
evolved largely from the Chris
tian Socialism" of a German bish-
op named Ketteler. The party
states:
"The capitalistic economic sys-
tenn does not do justice to the
vital interests Of the German
people ! the new structure of
German industry must be founded
on the principle that the time of
unlimited mastery Of private
capitalism is gone. We must, how
ever, prevent private capitalism
from being replaced, by, state
capitalism which is even more
dangerous from the, political and
economic freedom of the irdi-
vidual."
This means that in large West
German industries, public agen-
cies as well as co-operatives, work.
ers councils may be expected to
share in their management. Un-
til the end of the war. these in
dustries were monopolies.
On the other hand, direct COM
pulsion or forced planning In the
West German economy probably
will be avoided.
ALI, the government coalition
parties express views more or less
similar. ia.
The head of the second largest
party in the coalition-the Free
Democrats-is President Heuss.
He describes himself as an advo-
cate of absolute free trade.
His party, although not so
strongly church-supported as the
CDU, declares that churches are
the most cultural elements in our
national life" The FDP bitterly
opposes Communism. !
The same is true of the German
Party, the third group in the
government coalition. While the
Christian Democrats are largely
supported by Catholics, the Ger