The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-04-13
THE WORLD
TODAY
BIZ JAMEs MARROW

WASdlNGTON R-Th1re is no
clearer illustration Of the remote
ness Of peace with Russia than two
statements issued late last week
one in New York, the other in
Washington.
Premier Malenkov has been talk
ing peace since Stain died. His
representative in he United Ma
/ tons, Andrea Y Vishinsky, got up
there last week and declared
among other things;
The North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization, the Schuman Plan, the
European Defense Community and
plans for re-arming West Germany
must be abandoned; the atom
bomb must be banned at once;
the U. S. must stop building up
its own arms.
The No. / trouble with the pro-
posals was that they we're not new.
ViShinsky had talked the same
way while Stain was alive. What
he said showed once again that:
The Vests economic and mill
tary buildup is bothcring Russia.
This probably reveals precisely
why Malenkov is talking peace so
hard. To slow it down or Scuttle
ii before it gets too far advanced.
In Washington, after three days
of conferences among President
Eisenhower, West Germany's
Chancellor Adenauer, Secretary of
State Dulles and other officials,
the State Department issued a
statement on where they agreed.
All of it involved Germany but
in it these officials:
Challenged Russia to show its
good intentions by letting the East
Germans have truly free elections:
said they we're convinced there
can be no lasting solution of the
German problem unless Germany
is reunited peacefully and demo
cratically; agreed West Germany
must be rearmed as part Of a
single European army and that the
U. S. would help West Germany
rearm.
Until this statement the Russians
had been drenching Western Eu-
rope with their peace propaganda
without much challenge from the
U. S. to get down to cases on
what it would do about some Of
the most important problems.
Eisenhower had told a news con.
ference he would meet the Rus
SLAMS halfway. And Dulles last
week said Russia could show its
good heart by agreeing on peace
treaty for Austria.
But by throwing Germany at the
Russians, since final settlement on
Germany is one of the keystones
to any real peace, the Eisenhower
Adenauer agreement offset some
of the Russian propaganda.
There can be no better testing
ground Of Russia's earnestness for
peace than Germany. Nevertheless,
the State Department statement
was at the opposite pole from
Vishinsky's proposals.
1t is possible the East and West,
starting from those extreme posi-
tons, may some day be able to
meet on common ground. II won't
be soon.
The Russians run East Germany.
Reports from there indicate the
East Germans-and refugees from
East Germany Dear out the re.
ports-are so fed up on the Rus
SLAMS and Communists that in any
free election they would over
whelmingly turn against both.
Until now Russia has baked at
letting East and West Germany
unite. True, a united Germany
some day might be sucked into
the Russian camp through trade
or through Russian-trained Ger
man Communists taking over the
government from within.
But future German statesmen.
unless they were Communists,
could hardly believe they would
be able 10 deal too closely with
Russia without winding up q Rus
sian satellite.
A united Germany, once Russia
and the Allies cleared out and If
the Germans were able to rearm,
might take over the key position
in Europe itself by playing off the
East against the West. Eisenhower
doesn't seem 70 fea. this.
But . united Germany, after its
experience with the Russians since
the war. might link itself 50 close
" with the West that il would be.
come an impossible barrier
against any Russian aggression in
the future.
Eisenhower and Dulles seem con.
fident on which side a united Ger
many would be.
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