Evening star., 1949-01-10
Clay Cites Red Failure |ndonesia State Chiefs
To Win Germans, but Outside Of Republic TO
Warns Of Natona|ism Discuss Dutch Attack
BY the Associated Press

| ~ i've Nssoe'utso FfeSS
BERLIN, Jan. 10.-Gen. Lucius
D. Clay said today the failure o1
Russian tactics in trying to swing the
population of Berlin to communism
must be apparent even to the Soviet
government"
The United States military gov
ernor assessed the results of last
months Berlin elections in his
monthly report on occupations
affairs.
The report recorded two other set
oacks for communism in Western
Germany-in British occupation
zone elections and in trade union
affairs.
But it contained two cautioning
notes: That German nationalism Is
developing anew in Western Ger
many and that German authorities
in the American occupation zone are
making unWarranted complaints
about costs of the occupation
Communist Party Hard Hit.
Gen. Clay declared the Socialist
Unity (Communist Party in the
western sectors of Berlin has al
most disintegrated."
The defeat suffered by the
Communists does not affect the
Socialist Unity Party alone" he
said, but also the party's ideolpg-
ical and political mentors, the
Soviet military administration, and
reflects on the tactics used by the
Russian occupation power.
The failure of these tactics,
which were pursued with the great
est determination. must be appar-
ent even to the Soviet government
1T is clear that Berlin, a city
where the population had ample
opportunity to observe Soviet meth
ods at close range, has become the
worst habitat for communism.
The significance of these facts
can hardly be overemphasized
since Berlin is the one place in the
world today where the impact OF
Soviet police methods on public
opinion can be distinctly measured
IN terms of democratic elections"
Nationalist Come Out.
Gen. Clay warned that national
lstlc groups, which had been driver
Underground in Germany since the
overthrow of national socialism
are again beginning to lift their
heads"
Two such groups held meetings ir
the American zone. Gen. Clay sale
although these groups are as vel
small democratic German leader.
recall with uneasiness that unit
1929, national socialism itself wa,
a negligible movement"
The report named the groups a.
! Otto StraSser's Infamous black
'front.' and the National Democratit
Party (VNDPl.
| The report said Strasser's grour
was being rebuilt under the seem.
lngly innocuous name of League fol
German revival"
The report added Strasser was =
Nazl leader expelled from the party
in 1880 because he took its social
lStlc plans too seriously" he ther
formed the black front. He went
into exile after 1888. His brother
Gregor, once No 2 Nazi, was muir.
dered in the Hitler purge of 1884.
"Otto StaSser. now living ir
Canada, is reported planning to re.
turn to Germany in March," the
report said, adding his followers
met at Friedberg. in the American
zone state of Hesse.
The report said the group hac
requested military government
authorization for local license, bu,
the request was rejected on the
technical grounds it had insufficient
signatures.
/ MIR. Clay's report said the leader
Of the National Democratic Party
mad declared in a Stuttgart rally
that his party demanded:
( Re-establishment of the German
Reich within its former boundaries
return of Eastern German terri
tories ceded to Poland and Russia
ana return of the Saar and Alsace-
Lorraine from France.