a

TRE only people who are real-

ly happy in Western Ger-
many today are the jack-booted
thugs and Jew-baiters who made
the Nazi party what it was, and
the magnates who ran the banks
and steel plants for Hitler.

They remember that just be-
fore he went to the scaffold at
Nuremberg Alfred Rosenberg,
Hitler’s half-crazy court philos-
opher, told the British and Am-
ericans that one day they would
be fighting a holy crusade
against’ Russia, and a new-born
Reich would be fighting at their
side.

Rosenberg knew his men.

Today the Western powers are
dragging Western Germany out
of the pit, and with her they
are reviving all that was most
disgusting and most dangerous
in Hitler’s Third Reich.

John McCloy, U.S. High Com-
missioner in Germany, admitted
last August that 30 percent of
the top government and indus-
trial posts in Western Germany
were held by important former
followers of Hitler. It was a
gross understatement.

In Bavaria, over 20,000 public
officials are ex-Nazis, and in
most Ministries they form 75
percent of the personnel. Sixty
percent of the judges were
judges for Hitler, too.

The reasons, of course, are
not far to seek.

é

It has always been American
policy to make Germany—or as
much of it as they could lay
their hands on—into a solid cap-
italist bastion and a future ally
in the longed-for attack on the
Soviet Union,

To do so, they had to hand
the Ruhr industries back to the
capitalists .and the state ma-
chine back to men who would
rebuild a reactionary state.

Naturaly ‘enough, the only
people available for the job were
those who had done it for Hit-
jer,

And so Western Germany is
dominated today by people who
dream of a glorious Fourth
Reich and a war of revenge
against the Soviet Union.

A minister of the West Ger-
man “government,” a raving re-
actionary named Dehler, says:

“I protest against the fairy-
tale of German aggression... .
Germany cannot accept exclu-
sive responsibility for the rise of

“Hitler.”

_ Vice-Chancellor Franz Blucher,
another tame politician hoisted
to power by the Americans,
says: “German nationalism no
longer exists.”

_~ Premier Konrad Adenauer, a

‘Tory of the deepest and most:

dangerous hue, talks of the

_ need for a German army and
refers to the Soviet Union as
_ if Nazi Germany had won the

war,
A few weeks ago, in a beer
Asa ghlhereng tae oa
was formed by bitter, shouting
men in jack-boots.
“You want to save Europe—

then save Germany first” tied
their fuehrer Franz Richter, to
frenzied yelling and applause.
This Nazi-type party has one
- million followers. 2
: ‘Back in November a Dr, Franz
Ott, member of the Bonn par-

liament, told the press that Hit-
eee ee Ee eee
land.

Guenther Stegelmann, high of-

ficial of the German party, said

in December that “our

many during the war!

_ Scores of newspapers which
supported anti-semitism, dictat-

_ orship and war when Hitler was
im power, are re-appearing in

* the West now, with their former

owners and editors in charge.
e

But it is not only the Nazi
politicians that the British and
American authorities are bring-
ing back. There are the generals
too. :

When he was in New York
last December,
Marshal _Montgomery—who said:
“We'll have a good big party
and kill a lot of people’—ad-
dressed’ a private meeting of
American bankers.

Montgomery told them that
Western Germany must. have
several fully equipped army div-
isions within the next few years.

Now observe the steps being
taken to organize this new Ger-
man army.

Dr. Adenauer himself said on
December 9 that German mili-
tary formations should be in-
cluded in a West European
army.

It is exactly what Alfred Ros-
ehberg said before he was hang-
~eat:.

' Adenauer has been in touch
with General Kurt von Manteuf-

British Field

fel and a group of 18 Wehr-,.

macht generals and staff offi-
‘cers, organized in a body call-
ing itself the Bruderschaft.

From these prize specimens of
the Herrenvolk,; Adenauer has
received a detailed plan for cre-
ation of a new army. .

A Supreme Command for the
revived Wehrmacht is being set
up at Giessen, an Air Force

Command at .Hamburg _ Hoch-._

kamp, and a naval headquarters
at Hamburg Finkenwaerder.

The old cadres of Hitler’s ar-"

my are being regrouped by
means of informal meetings in
private houses,
work is done by General Bruhns,
who admitted as much at a
public meeting in November.

“Government circles keep us
informed and we make our pre-
parations,” he said. ‘

At the same meeting, Air
Force General Stumpf said:

“I am entrusted by the Chris-
tian Democrats with organizing
all the members of Ahe Wehr-
macht.”

A department set up at Kas
sel by the Americans, ostensibly
for the purpose of collecting

Much of this -

documents and writing a his
tory of the war, is nothing more
nor less than the new General
Staff. .

General Guderian is in charge
of the Intelligence Service. Gen-
eral Franz Halder (later replac-
ed by von Manteuffel) was plan-
ning the new divisions.

Other top names under Hit-
ler, who are still top names un-

der ‘McCloy, are General Student '

and Admirals Schultze and Ma-
chenz.

The U.S. Senate Appropria-
tions Committee and the Armed
Services Committee are both
agreed that Germany must pro-
vide, and provide soon, a big
fighting force against the Soviet
Union.

General Lucius D. Clay, form-
er U.S. Commander in Germany,
said in November that the Ger-
mans should contribute to the
military forces of Western Eur-
ope. - ;

Again, it is exactly what Ros-
enberg, the man Hitler thought

‘was a genuis, said before they

hanged him.

Indeed, it is Hitler's policy
that is now being carried out in
Western Germany: the “ohy al-

t

liance against Bolshevism—later
to.,become a holy crusade,

When Chamberlain tried to
organize that sort of alliance he
exposed Britain to the first ter-
rible onslaught of the Nazis.

Now it is being done again—
by the Americans and the Brit-
ish Labor government.

@

Let no one hold illusions on
this score. The savage, sub-
human loutSs ‘who ran the SS.
and the Gestapo are coming
back in Western Germany. ;
‘The bankers and businessmen
who financed Hitler are again
in charge of the Ruhr.

The ruthless, war-loving gen-
erals are back too. ;

In Britain, in Canada, Aus-
tralia, the people are being soak-
ed in propaganda about the dem-

ocratization of Western Ger-
many.
When they have been sui-

ficiently softened up, they shall
be told that a couple of German
divisions are being formed.
But by then it will be too late.
The German ruling class will be

_tich, powerful and bristling with

guns. And it will be, Borearing
again for war. ‘

; The peoples of Africa fig

By, S. MULUMBA

KY January there ended in Paris
a conference on technical co-
operation in Africa.

: Represented there were Belgi-
um, France, Portugal, South Afri-
ca, South Rhodesia, and Britain.

These countries discussed meas-
ures to combat soil erosion, dis-
ease and pests. But they were
thinking of crop yom Cae
and profits.

The tsetse fly, the Ona
the filea, which bring sleeping

administration, which of course
‘consists of British settlers, as pre-
texts for confiscating Africans’
land and livestock. —

Soil erosion is caused by heavy
tropical rain, such as recently car-
ried away the nut railway in Tan-
ganyika.

Various modern methods of
agriculture have been introduced
to try to overcome this problem,
but when the rains overpower
these measures, as in Tanganyika,
the Africans are accused of nég-
ligence by the British colonists,
and again the pretext is seized to
steal their land from them.

Today in Kenya, a British East
African colony, the District Offi-
cer is engaged in forcing nearly
12,000 Africans off their land, to
make way for British settlers,

In Kenya, ine 1948, the Africans
of Tigoni lost their homes and
land, and the leaders of the move-
ment to resist were jailed.

Ina petition addressed to Bri-

tish Prime Minister Attlee, they
said:

“We have planted acres and,

acres of valuable black wattle.

trees, These trees fetch a good

price, as the bark is purchased

by manufacturers of tanning ex-

“The government has realised

25,000 pounds by the sale of

these trees.” i

Yet it was proposed to divide’
a sum of 125 pounds ($375) bet-
ween 60 families dispossessed, as
cash valuation of all their pro-
perty, huts, farms and trees.”

Tigoni is occupied by eer
settlers today.

And British delegates to the
United Nations, will continue tel-

‘ling the UN that the Africans

would. be sorry to lose British

t back

rule!

Between 4928 and 1930 the Ba-
tonga people of Mazabuka district
in Northern Rhodesia were evict-
ed from their fertile lands.

For the past half century since
the Kings of Buganda, Toro, An-
kole, and Bunyoro found they had
signed away their people’s land
and ceded their political power to
the British government, the Bri-
tish grip on the economic resour
ces of Uganda has tightened.

Along with this has gone ig-
norance, disease and poverty for
the people, and the steady cor
ruption of the chiefs nominated
by the British rulers, until today
these men shoot, flog, and imprison.
the Bataka — the Elders of the
People, and all those who demand
a democraic African government

in Uganda.

_ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 31, 1950 — PAGE $e.

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