— able” No one can tell from daily feed Germans, to whom food is being flown by huge plane armadas in the American and British sectors of Berlin. Nor can anyone but the most careful reader tell that the USSR Neither insists on the western allies leaving Berlin, nor declines to talk matters over. Yet those are the facts. On the first issue we have the Word of the Soviet foreign minis- try, which said in its July 15 re- ply to.a U.S. state department Rote that “the Soviet Union will not object to insuring sufficient Supplies for the whole of Greater Berlin through its own means.” There is no evidence to throw doubt on this statement since the Russians have never been giyen a chance to try. U.S. insistence on bringing in food and fuel by air after land transport was. inter- rupted by the Germany currency dispute involved prestige, not - humanitarianism. On the second question, the Russian note recalls approvingly that under wartime U.S.-Soviet- French agreements “Berlin was envisaged as the seat of supreme authority for the four powers 0C- cupying Germany. The Russians also ask for full restoration of those agreements, particularly the Potsdam pact. Thus they have not demanded either Ber- lin or Germany for themselves alone, What they have really said is that the western allies will have no reason for being in Berlin, which lies in the Russian occu- Pation zone, if it ceases to be the capital of all Germany. This will happen if the west sets up a separate German state, as : Planned, ruled from Frankfurt. That brings us to the third Point—will the Russians negoti- ate? The Moscow note actually _ advocated talks. It also said these “could be effective only if they Were not confined: to the question Of .., Berlin, since this question Cannot be separated from the feneral question of quadripart- ite (4-power) control in relation to Germany.” Berlin quarrels may Make headlines, but bitter past experience should have shown Mankind that the future of Ger- Many as a nation is what will de- Cide peace or war in Europe. So the Russian proposal seems rea- ‘Sonable because it gets to the Toot of things instead of their Symptoms. * * * The present prospect of two Germanies, backed by rival power blocs of ex-allies, is what is really frightening, The Anglo-American idea of a separate west Germany, Which a scared France has also been pressed to accept, involves » _Tebuilding the great Ruhr steel in- dustry as a “bar to Bolshevism.” Since Nazis are the most “reli- anti-reds of all, they are already being jet put of war times jails in droves to run it. The New York Times tells us fur- ther that some 70 percent of of- ficials in U.S.-occupied Bavaria are now Nazis. What those men Want is German domination of © Europe. They are being given the ~ tools to get it. Should two Germanys solidify, _ the Ruhr Nazis will try to get Control of the Soviet zone as @ first step to a world comeback. Unable to do this alone, they . Will seek to provoke a western Oviet war to make it easier, as he defunct Hitler advised in his will. If the Second World War is followed by a third, with 2 ee PACIFIC ee . i Berlin crisis laid to violation of Potsdam By ISRAEL EPSTEIN press headlines, that the Russians haven't refused to Costly operation American taxpayers ‘70 PERCENT BACK AT JOBS’ U.S. reinstates Nazis BERLIN. Nazi industrial executives of the German IG Farben trust who wéte on trial’ for war crimes in Nuremberg have been released from jail “on parole” in American- occupied Bavaria, according to the American-licensed German DENA news agency. Those released include Karel Krauch, wartime chief of the notoricus vermittelungestelle Wehrmacht, the liai- son office between IG Farben and the Nazi army. Krauch formerly headed the German chemical industry under Nazi war economy chief Hermann Goering. He personally invented the gas extermination chambers in which millions of war prisoners, Jews and anti-Nazis were killed at Oswiecim and other Nazi death camps. Other Nazis are returning in droves to adminis- trative jobs under the American occupation. A U. S. jnilitary government report issued July 11 says 85 per- cent of German civil officials previously removed from ‘their jobs for Nazi activity have now been reinstated. In Bavaria, 60 percent o the judges and 76 percent of prosecuting attorneys now functioning were Nazi party members before Germany’s' defeat, the report reveals. Monopolies inspire drive to crush Malayan labor te -—LONDON ~" The British press has been shouting itself horse about the “menace of communism” in South East Asia. First there was the wild scare that Burma had become “commun- ist,’ a scare which subsequently turned out to have its are footing the bill for supply operations in Berlin involving the use of fleets of C-47 transport planes like these shown at Templehof Airport. The crisis has been provoked by United States insistence on pursuing a policy in Germany directly contrary to the war aim of the Allies to ensure that Germany should never again be enabled to threaten world peace. Yet, in its _scheme to make a separate West German state the base of future war operations against eastern Europe, the U.S. finds its strongest supporters among the Nazis. p brief spell between, history may record the two as one conflict in which the Nazis made a fine second try for European suprem- acy. Many daily papers accuse Rus- ria of pandering to the Germans, leaving the west no other course. The real question is which Ger- mans are “pandered”—those who - ou cc lif od 2 SYDNEY. The Australian trade union movement has conditionally lift- ed the world-famous 32-months- old ban on Dutch ships carrying supplies to Indonesia. ‘ The decision to lift the ban was made by a conference of 19 origin in fears of the Burma Oil Company, the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company and other British against them, their actions are be- monopolies in Burma that they|ing denounced as “terrorist” and were not going to get as much com- evidence of a “communist conspir-. pensation as they had hoped for | @cy-” acy. ; from Thakin Nu’s puppet govern-| Malcolm MacDonald, son of ment. Now there is the discovery | broadcast by the colonial regime as of another Communist “conspiracy” Ramsay MacDonald and former in Malaya. British high commissioner in Can- “This has been used as a cover| 27% revealed the ferocity of the — : : suppression campaign when he behind which a regular military : ; boasted: “The expectation of life campaign, even to the use of rock- r : of a ‘terrorist’ from the moment of et-firing Spitfires to shoot up plan- i capture to the time of death will tation workers, has been launched Re i it citar at “ to smash the trade union move- am sat i oa hoses ment and suppress the few existing ; * * x democratic liberties. ‘Nearly 1,000- Malayan trade unionists, political workers and or ganizers have already been arrest- ed by the colonial government. In- dian Gurkha regiments have taken over the work of the ordinary pol- The crisis has been developing — for months past as food costs rose three, four and now five times over pre-war levels. When workers in the tin mines and rubber planta- tions, whose wages have only doubled in the same period, organ- ‘can-Soviet-British-French control} j just want to live or those who can see no glcery or profit without war. There is no record of Rus- sia freeing Nazi industrialists or top party bosses, much less giv- ing them top. jobs. Neither has federal maritime and land trans- port unions in Melbourne. The conditions on which the ban was lifted include the proviso that the Australian government must maintain an embargo on ‘ghe, as some writers allege, tempt-| the re eda Acaciwreewons to _ed Germans to her side by prom-) the Dutch in Indonesia. ‘ising to return to them territories The Communist paper, the Tribune, recalling events when the ban was first imposed on September 24, 1945, states that the Australian action “gave the new Indonesian Republic valuable time to gather its forces” against the Dutch imperialists, Ht HHT vynnentat USER ceded to Poland. Moscow declared flatly June 27 that “the Polish frontier is immovable” It held out “work, not war, as the) only way for Germans. : On what terms will Russia, and the rest of eastern Europe, nego- tiate with the west on all Ger- many? The answer was given on June 25 by the foreign ministers of the USSR, Poland, Czechoslo- vakia, Yugoslavia and three small- er countries. It specified full de- militarization of Germany by common agreement, joint Ameri- U.S. monoplies move into Japan —TOKYO. American big business, attracted over the Ruhr for peaceful pro- by a U.S. occupation policy design- duction, 4-power agreement on & ‘notorious banishment law, ice; a state of emergency has been declared and the death penalty im- posed for possession of arms. The which enabled the government'to banish, Indian or Chinese workers without any charge, has now been extended so that it can apply even to British colonial subjects in Malaya. * * * - Reports now coming out of Mal- aya reveal the significant fact that a few days before Malcolm Mac- Donald, British commissioner gen- eral, made the broadcast in which | | he spoke of serious unrest created »|by foreign “communist” agents, a delegation of British planters and businessmen had called on Sir Ed- |ward Ghent, the high commissioner. This delegation threatened the lccal administration that unless strong and immediate action was taken against the trade unions and local strikers, British residents and employers in Malaya would take the law into their «wn hands. Sir Edward Ghent was informed that arms had atready been distributed ized into unions, the employers ar- bitrarily dismissed their leaders, refused to recognize the unions and scorned their demands. Before the war, Malaya, with its tin and rubber production, was a paradise for imperialist exploita- tion; fantastic profits were made. No income tax was levied. Unor- ganized workers lived in miserable conditions. The ignominous defeat of the British in Malaya by the Japanese exposed the rottenness of the col- onial regime, Even the Conserva- tive press in England declared that © the fall of Singapore marked the — “end of an epoch”, an epoch in: which British monopolies had drained the wealth out of Malaya — without doing anything for the welfare of the people. The Malayan labor movement — ie has been fighting hard to force the colonial government to implement the promises made by Britain dur- ing the war. : But British tin and rubber mon~ opolies have no intention of re linquishing their profits to return single democratic provisional gov- ernment for all Germany, a peace freaty with this government fol- lcwed by withdrawal of all Allied ‘occupation troops after one year and reparations to Germany’s victims. . That sounds like what we all fought the Second World War to achieve. It is, in fact, a return to the Truman-Stalin-Attlee agree- ment at Potsdam. Talks on such lines might settle not only the Berlin fireworks but also the much bigger question of Germany -—peace or war. There seems no excuse for not starting them at once. — TRIBUNE—JULY 28, 1948—PAGE 8 * . ed to obstruct labor organization and maintain wage scales averag- ing $15 a week, is moving into Japan. ; ‘ Industrial concerns reported to be negotiating for branch plants include duPont, Chrysler and’ Ken- necott Copper. This is a continu- ation of a pre-war trend which placed many Japanese plants under American control, often in partner- ship with Japanese trusts tooling the country’s war effort, first against China and later against Britain and the U.S: Ford and Gen- eral Motors had big'plants in Japan: before the ‘war’ and’ Standard- Vacuum Oil had huge storage facil-' ities, ' to their workers, in the form of higher living standards, a greater quickly. Arrests and police raids. share of the wealth they produce, were launched throughout the! Before the war, the monopolies country, with press cables cynically could, fix the prices: @t bacoaa tems reporting that “red terrorists” | Sold to the U.S. Now, in return for were menacing the security of the ‘an agreement to li colony, At the same time British | tion of synthetle rubber ot Bows, planters and business managers lthe U.S. is demanding that the were armed under military com-| Price of natural rubber be — manders, regular troops were re-. ; own, inforeed and a campaign against} to all Europeans. Ghent and MacDonald acted Confronted by the demands ae ; ‘Malayan labor for carrying ¢ strikers was begun. | of waarthne: prondists, #0! risenelndint:: Wherever Malayan unionists, the! American demands, the monopolies, majority of whom gained experi-' and the colonial regime are des- ence’ as guerrilla fighters against perately striving to crush ‘the : the. Japanese, are resisting the mili- unions in the effort to maintain | tary campaign being conducted their profits. . saaties limit the produc-