Evening star., 1950-03-25


ernment, and some may remain.
But if they were effective, it was
because the United States, having
fought the war only for victory,
emerged from it without any in
telligible policy at all. Had there
been a policy, the suggestions of,
say, Harry Dexter White - who
via Henry Morgenthau, jr., exer-
cised over the White House a
considerable influence would
have been measured and judged
in the light of that policy. 1t was
the intention of Mr.. White, re-
putedly author of the Morgenthau
Plan, to destroy the German ma
ton; smash the Western indust-
rial plant; flood the coal mines;
and turn all Germans into potato
diggers on allotment farms.
Thinking With Emotions.
Now, whether or not Mr.. White
was a Communist, Mr.. Morgen-
thau was not. Yet he made this
policy his own. So did hundreds
of thousands of Americans who
merely thought with their emo
tions, and by no stretch of imagi-
nation can be called Communists.
The Daily Worker supported Nor
genthau, and DR.. Jessup's indig-
nant testimony that "he never
reads that paper" is not to his
credit. He should. If one discernS
that American Communists sup
port a policy which is repudiated
in Moscow, it is reasonable to as
sumo, without investigation of the
authorship, that it is an American
action which if carried out will
aid the Soviets.
The Russians, however, emerged
from the war with a plan for the
creation of a new world order
of contiguous states, organized on
a single political pattern, with
completely integrated military and
economic systems, and held to-
gether by a common faith and
secular church-a new Rome, with
its seat, as the Eastern Roman
emperors and bishops dreamed
thousand years ago, not in the
West but in the East. And this
was clear to some of us by the
spring of 1945.
To achieve this it was essential
permanently to weaken by trunca-
ton, division, and economic chaos
what was left of Germany, the
strongest European nation, in Or
der then to attach her power po-
tential to the new empire.
Had the West had an intelli-
gent agent or two within the
Politburo, they would Immediately
have been purged because of the
policies they advocated-contrary
to the clear and simple policy
envisaged.
Developments Foreseen.
But the United States had no
concept of any European or
world order to emerge as a solu-
ton for the problems created by
the war. There was, therefore,
no frame of reference by which
any proposition could be judged.
Under such circumstances. had
the State Department been stated
with members of the Union League
Club, we would have been tails
to the Russian kite. For you can
not defeat a plan without a plan,
or an idea without an idea.
At this moment the German
situation is extremely critical. If
I may say so. developments there
were foreseen by this columnist
five years ago.
Yet, though the French govern
.nent is not Communist, judged
by some of its actions it might
us well be. At Potsdam the three
powers agreed on German eco
nomic unity and to establish
common German ministry in Ber-
lin. Had that been done, there
might have been no iron curtain.
But this was torpedoed not by
Russia but by France, with the
United States and Great Britain
consenting.
AT Moscow, M. Bidault-ob-
sessed not by communism but
by fear-worked to trade off
recognition of east German trun-
cation for the Saar. In Ger
many. extremely well-informed
pro-Western Germans are con-
vinced that an East-West agree
ment is pending, probably with
Berlin going to the Russians.
The French will not hear of it
as a German capital, and Britain
Is trailing with France.
But-write it down-if this
happens, the ruination of Europe
will De accomplished.
And not by the Communists
though they will be the bene-
ficiaries.