increas
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As the crow ‘flies, it is only
about ten miles from my flat
in East Berlin to Potsdam.

But a good hour is needed to
drive there - on to the Berlin
Ring and all round the city.

This is one of the smaller ag-
gravations due to West Berlin
being stuck in the middle of the
“German Democratic Republic.

Any trip to Leipzig, Weimar,
Magdeburg, Marienborn, entails
this long detour on the ‘‘Sputnik

_ Route.’’

The section of autobahn over
which the British, Americans
and French claim to have unres-
tricted rights is not an isolated
highway as newspaper maps mis-
leadingly represent.

It is part of the whole network
of autobahns serving the G.D.R.
and other countries.

This section - from West Ber-
lin to Marienborn - is 110 miles
long.

All day long, heavy transport
lorries pound along it at 50 and
60 miles an hour, carrying sup-
plies between West Germany and
West Berlin. Cars and coaches
are filled with West Germans,
West Berliners and foreigners of

all kinds,
Mingling with all this traffic is

G.D.R. traffic, private cars,
coaches, heavy transport.

All this is civilian traffic and
has been supervised by the
G.D.R, since the republic was
founded in 1949. More than 95

per cent of traffic between West
Germany ‘and West Berlin is
civilian.

It moves smoothly.

. * * *
_ At Marienborn on Saturday
night, with allthe weekendtraffic,

¥,

average times to complete for-
malities were ten minutes for a
car, three minutes for a lorry.
The other, less than 5 percent
of traffic, is military, serving
the 10,000 or so British, French
and U.S. troops in West Berlin,

And here it is necessary to
imagine such a main artery as,
say, the M1,(in England) being
subject to sudden blockage, not
by susidence or potholes, but by
the arbitrary activities of foreign
troops,

The comparison is not absolute
since this road section is part of
an international road network.

The Western Allies refuse to
have military traffic supervised
by the G.D.R. Led by splutter-
ings from Bonn, they insist that
there is no G.D.R.

So ‘‘for the time being’’ the
G.D.R, agreed that this super-
vision would be done by Soviet
officials.

All recent incidents have been
over military traffic and have
been accompanied by loudclaims
about ‘‘rights’’ deriving from the
Second World War, based on
**four-power agreements,’’

Agreements there were - very
vague, as fitted a situation be-
tween allies 18 years ago, when
almost the only traffic was mili-
tary. And before the three West-
ern allies split Germany by mer-
ging their zones into the Federal
German Republic.

Nothing was ever got down in
detail about the actual handling
of traffic. As the New York
Times wrote on October 14: ‘‘A
series of ‘customary’ rules de-
veloped, but they were never

defined to the Russians,’’

* * *

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“We got your letter of greet-
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guests at a ‘New Year’s Eve’
party and banquet,’’ the letter
says.

**Thank you for the care and
consideration you have shownus,
All of us (and there are 60people
in the troupe) will be very glad
to see the New Year in together
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The association reports that
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. Autobahn ‘incidents’
e war danger

It was widely said that in Amer-
ican convoys passengers would
get out to be counted if their
number exceeded 30.

British procedure, however, ;

was kept under stilltighter wraps

according to The Times of Oc-
tober 17,

come a bargaining point for the
Russians.”’

And there you have the lunatic
situation of the allies agreeing
that the Russians have the right
to check how many troops enter
and leave West Berlin, but say
that the Russians must take their
word that it is below an unstated
number. :

According to The Times man in
Washington, ‘‘No effort will be
made to avoid incidents’’ by the
U.S., Britain and France.

Obviously in that case there
will be more incidents, since
these three powers have the sec-
ret of their autobahn procedures
and won’t tell.

On the other hand, the Russians
are there, onthe autobahn. And
West Berlin is a Nato military
enclave 110 miles inside the G,-
D.R., 400 miles from the Soviet
Union though 4,000 miles from
America,

The European socialist count-_

ries were all occupied and laid
waste by the nazis. From their
point of view, whatever ‘‘rights’’
the Western allies acquired in
defeating the nazis, they lost
when they made Hitler’s heirs
their allies and rearmed them,

* * *

It is no longer 1945. People
who talk of a reunified Greater
Germany - soon - are either
idiots or have aims that can only
be achieved by war,

In 1963, it is a fact of life that
there are two German states and

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that the autobahn to capitalist
West Berlin runs over the terri-
tory of the socialist G.D.R.

Nobody wants to impose social-
ism on West Berlin.

But if ‘‘no effort will be made
to avoid incidents’’ on that auto-
bahn, then a wide network of
communications in the G.D.R.
and between Poland, the.U.S.S.-
R., Czechoslovakia and points
south and west are under immed-
iate threat.

So is world peace,

Where is the sense of leaving

‘a situation like this lying around
in Germany, where the last two

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world wars began?
* * *

This autobahn is only one of a
whole rag-bag of problems which
revolve about the West Berlin
enclave.

There is a good deal of talk
about rights. But West Berlin
lies 110 miles inside the G.D.R,
If it is ‘to have rights, it must al-
so accept duties,

In any case, it all needs to be
negotiated and settled so that an
end can be put to these inflam-
mable remnants of the last war.

Incidents come and go - but
any one might be the last. -

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