Evening star., 1951-09-17
Nest Reich Reported
et 10 Demand Riqht
10 Make War Goods
BY the Associated Press

BY the Assocufed Press
BONN, Germany, Sept. IT,
West Germany's government will
demand the right to produce war
materials when it negotiates with
Britain, France and the United
States on a peace contract" au-
thoritative sources said today.
German leaders are expected to
contend that the Ruhr Valley in
duStries must be integrated in
the Vests defense program with
out restraints of any kind on the
Germans.
The Allies and the Germans are
likely to begin their meetings next
week on the decisions of the
Washington Big Three meeting
which drew up plans for peace
contract to end the six years of
German occupation.
The three powers had an
nounced they intended to retain
certain rights In Germany after
the signing of the contract, pos
sibly including a ban on German
war production. France is expected
to oppose vigorously any unre-
stricted German war production.
Recruitment Opposed.
Meanwhile, there has been out
spoken opposition from many Ger
mans to the Washington decision
on the recruitment of Germans
for a 5-nation army under Gen.
Eisenhower, and responsible off,
cialS here say this opposition will
make it difficult to get German
soldiers to the Atlantic defense
, system.
A strong "1et the Allies defend
: us" sentiment is growing.
|, Some members of Parliament
who favor rearmament tell politi-
cal leaders here that 70 per cent
. of their people oppose rearma-
, ment. And there is far greater
$ support in Parliament for Great
ing an independent German Army
than for the European army plan.
|, When German leaders began
! negotiating with the Allies for a
! part in the defense program, it
was with the idea of reviving the
+ German Army with Gen. Eisen-
, hover in control. They gave up
that idea on American insistence.
The answer of the Free Demo-
> crat and German Parties is "the
| Allies want the German soldier
but not the German officers" The
7 two parties are members of Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer's coali-
r tion government. He needs their
! strength to win Parliament ap-
/ proval for the program.
Kurt Schumacher, chief of the
/ powerful Socialist Party, has
: swayed many Germans against the
government in an anti-rearma-
ment stumping tour, Allied off,
cials coneede. Socialists, Commu-
niSts and new-Nazi groups are
forming up in a left-extreme right
pool to fight rearmament.
Mercenary Role Barred.
Former Gen. A. D. Ludwig Crue-
: well, who succeeded Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel as head of the
Afrika Korps desert fighters,
ECHOED one German attitude at
the outfits first postwar reunion
at ISerlohn.
He declared "We refuse to serve
; as Hessian mercenaries." Paid
HeSsian soldiers fought in British
; ranks against the Continentals
during the United States Revolu-
tionary War.
KorpS veterans cheered when
Cruewell asked equality for Ger
many in European defense. He
did not commit himself directly
on rearmament, but demanded as.
surances from the West that it is
rearming against war and not for
war"
Terms of the Big Three agree
ment on recruiting Germans into
European army were not pub
lished after the Washington agree
ment but the feeling here was that
the United States would accept
only an agreement which would
permit very early entry of German
troops into the defense setup.
But the step intensified a criti-
cal political battle in France, Paris
reported. Both the Communists
and the De Gaullists attacked the
idea of "denationalizing" Frances
own army, and putting it under
the command of a foreigner.
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