Evening star., 1950-10-16

on conditions in Germany ond their
relation to existing Red threats, writ
ten by Washington correspondent
Of the Detroit News.
commandant, down, expect that
the customary SO per cent-plus of
obedient JAS" cast Cor elseD for
the Communist single-front ticket
will be followed by a magnani-
nous gesture from the Kremlin,
setting Germany free"
This euphemism will, of course,
merely be the cloak behind which
can be established a new puppet,
through which Stain & Co. can
continue their hostile harassment
of the West without taking direct
responsibility for it.
The German satellite of Mos
cow will have all the apparent as
poets of sovereignty, Gen. Taylor
and his associates expect. There
will be a peace treaty. The Rus
sian commander, Gen. VASTLY I.
Ghuikov, will probably be replaced
by civilian commissar or "am-
bassador." Most-possibly all-of
the Red Army may be withdrawn
to the nearby Polish frontier.
The Politburo's German pup
pets will put on different robes
and a whole new pattern Of pene-
tration and aggression will be ex-
pected at any minute thereafter.
'Iiberating" All Germany.
Gen. Taylor does not know, of
course, precisely what form the
next Moscow maneuver will take.
But in all the drum m-beating that
preceded the shadow-balloting,
Communist propaganda empha-
sized that it is not just the Soviet
zone. but all Germany. that is
being liberated"
That will mean that any future
misdeeds in and around this sin
gle free outpost behind the Iron
Curtain will be the responsibility
not of the Russians but of their
free" German neighbors. If Com
muniSts interfere with free access
of the Western powers to Berlin,
for example, and Gen. Taylor pro-
tests to the Soviet representative,
the Russian can shrug his shoul-
ders and merely say, "You have
the wrong address"
tIf will hn Nf L,
squeeze" Gen. Taylor says. They
will try to force us to deal with
government we say does not
exist"
This squeeze" could take any
of several forms. The new Soviet
German state, for example, could
as "the rightful government of
Germany" claim sovereignty over
all Berlin and demand that any
foreigners coming in, including
those from the United States and
other occupying powers, get visa
clearance from the new state.
Won't Be Accepted.
If this were accepted, it would
be short step to freezing us out
entirely. OF course, it won't be
accepted.
"It must be made clear" Gen.
Taylor says, that the conquered
race will not be allowed to violate
the rights we won in 1945"
But Stalin's novel buck-passing
apparatus could lead to a new
kind of blockade of Berlin" The
German Communists. controlling
all territory surrounding the city,
could stop road trafic-or try to-.
They could throw the power switch
and bring to a halt the lifeline
military train running between
Berlin and Frankfurt, in the
American zone.
The agreement signed by Jacob
Malik in New York, committing
the Russians not to interfere with
traffic in this manner, could thus
be by-passed. If and when we
protested to the Soviet Germans,
they could say, "We signed moth
ing. Your agreement is with an
other nation, Russia" The Rus
slams could say, 1--WE are not STOP
ping your trains. 1t is the sover-
eign government of Germany"
This modern version of the shell
game, If 1t comes, will not stop the
American leadership. Gen. Taylor
will spend no time trying to find
which shell the pea is under. He
will make it very plain that we
understand what is behind all that
sort of nonsense.
Any move to cut Berlin off from
the West will be met by Gen. Tay-