~ Marshall

speaks —
frankly

By J. MIROV

HE new measures taken by
the American occupation
authorities in Western Germany
have stirred up justified anxiety
among’ all freedom-loving nations.
This anxiety is particularly deep
among the peoples of Europe who
_ suffered under the Nazi octuPa-
tion. The point in question is the
decision of the American author-
ities to turn over the Ruhr indus-
try to its former owners.

This move shatters all the illu-
sions harbored by some naive

people who believed that the
American, British and French

authorities would not dare to un-

-dertake the restoration of Ger-
man imperialism so openly and
‘so Soon after the end of the war.

: In his recent statement at a press
--eonference in Washington, U.S.

Secretary of State George C. Mar-
. shall dotted all the “t's.”

_ Marshall confirmed Law No, 75
on the restoration of the German
: in the Ruhr indus-
try ‘published by the American
and British military governors in
- Western Germany. Moreover, he
had to admit that the French ap-
_ prehensions concerning the pos-
sible creation of a war potential
‘that may become a menace to
France’s freedom and independ-
ence are justified. .
The fact that even Marshall
-eould not gloss over this menace
merely indicates that it cannot
_ be denied today. But coming from

oss British, has been exerting
every effort to infuse some life
_ into the prostrate body of German
All this is done in the interest
of the preparation of a new war.
_ Marshall, in fact, made no effort
to conceal this. When he was try-
ing to justify the Anglo-American
A genni affecting the Ruhr he
vaguely hinted at the very special
reasons “known to you.” This
manner of talking is employed
only when things dare not be
called by their own names.

“Through the fog of Marshall's
_ “mystified” words, could be dis-
cerned the outlines of the global

- network of American war bases.
‘The “special reasons” are the con-

wee Heme guiding the ruling
_cireles of the U.S. and Britain in

GEORGE ©. MARSHALL

points of the program for the
preparation of a new war. And
this is precisely how Law No. 75
was interpreted by the German
fascists.

Soon after its publication, the
war criminal, Franz Halder,
former chief of staff of the Nazi
armty, came out with a special
statement. This beaten fascist

general declared boastfully that

he would undertake to create a
German army in Western Ger-
many in short order provided he
was given the armaments and
funds.

The decision to return the Ruhr

Comisco-the pink spy network

—LONDON

for organization of a
pread network of espion.

age and terror against the demo-
cratic regimes of eastern Europe,
directed by the British Labor
Party and rightwing European
Social Democrats, were drawn up
behind closed doors at the session
of the Committee for Internation-
al Socialist Conference (Comisco)
held at ‘Clact-on-Sea, "ngland,
this month. °

The plans co-ordinated the ac-
tivities of the reactionary “social-
ist’ emigres from eastern Europe
with the already exiSting espion-
age system organized by the
German Social Democrats from
headquarters in- Hanover.

Activities of the new “pink
network” so-called after the

—

Nazi “brown network’—will be

closely integrated with the es-

_pionage apparatus in Europe di-

rected by the British and Ameri-
ean intelligence service, a branch
of which is the Abwehr Nazi
military spying outfit under Gen-

eral Gudeian.
Most important ae at the
conference was the deputy

chairman of the west German
Social Democrat Party, Erich
Ollenhauer, who arrived in Eng-
jand with a staff of five experts.
They met along with Foreign
Secretary Bevin’s representa-
tives, representatives of former
Hungarian, Polish es Ruman-

industry to the powerful German
monopolists who raised Hitler to
power puts an end to the phrase-
mongering about the “socializa~
tion” of the Ruhr.

Dinkelbach, director of the
German steel trust, said in a
speech broadcast on the day after
the publication of Law No. 75: “I
have always said that the old
owners will not suffer, The Ger-
man industrialists will henceforth
not only direct industry, but ‘also

* defend the interests of the own-

ers.”

There is na doubt whatever,
that it is now the question of a
deal between those American in-
terests seeking to provoke a new
war and the fascist magnates of
the German war industry.

It is significant that Marshall
tried to justify the return of the
German enterprises to their
former owners by the argument
that they cannot receive any loans
in their present condition. These
loans will be advanced to the
German arms manufacturers by
the American monopolies which
netted fabulous profits during the

~Second World War and are rub-

bing their hands in anticipation
of further profits from the prepar-
ation of a new war.

Law No. 75 exempts from all
control the German enterprises
whose capital is composed to the
extent of more than 50 percent of
foreign investments. In the light
of this fact, it is clear that all the
talk about “international control”
over the Ruhr is merely a smoke-
sereen for the convenience of the
American monopolists. In accord-

ance with the American plan, the

American and German monop-
olies are to become +the real
masters of the Ruhr.

British and French ruling
circles are prepared to accept a
new Munich pointed against their
own peoples and all the peoples
of Europe.
enough, Marshall is not inclined
to take very seriously the Official
objections of the present French
government.

In his statement he noted mere-
ly that the French government is

Heading Ollenhauer’s panel of
experts is the British intelligence
agent Fritz Heine, now disguised

as chief of the Social Democrat
ube Department in Hanover.
The other experts are heads of
the various departments of the
so-called “Eastern Bureau of the
Social Democratic Party,’ includ-
ing Otto Heike, former SS offi-
cer listed as a war criminal by
the Polish ‘government, who
heads the archives department,
and Herman Witteborn, former
Luftwaffe officer and volunteer
‘for Hitler's Condor Legion in
Spain, who heads the reference
department. They told the Clac-
ton conference how their espion-
age and sabotage outfit is cam-.
ouflaged as the “Refuge Trust
Fund, East,” operating from
Hanover. This office is a depart-
ment of the Anglo - American
secret services, the “Counter-In-
telligence Corps” CIC and the
Field Security Service FSS.
&
CTION of the separate de-
partments of the “Eastern
Bureau” is to collect, verify and
supply intelligence of a military,
political and economic’ character
on the Soviet occupation , army
in “Germany. These tasks will be
extended after the Clacton con-
ference to include similar espi_

onage against the allies of the |

Soviet! Union—the people's de-
mocracies. as

Rebels of Greece

Three vears you've iinted us from hill to hill,
hanged our best brothers in the public squares,
gorged every jail with us; and now, how fares
your government? Does Greece at lest lie still?
Not vet, not yet! There's more of us to kill
this day, than when you, started. Neither prayers
nor punishinents can purge you of your cares—

for all the ill you work must work you ill.
Gather your wise men—ask them to explain
this weird new law that contradicts all laws,
so that our every casualty’s a gain,
so that your every victory’s in vain.
Are we immortals—or is it our cause,
our cause that turns your bullets into grain?

Characteristically .

AARON KRAMER

up against an “additional: diffi-
culty” which is connected with the
“political struggle now taking
place in France.”

Marshall hinted at the fact that
the present rulers of France, who

were digging a grave for her on
the eve of the Second World War,
are now encountering constantly
growing resistance on the Part of
the French people.

The decision of the American
authorities on the fate of the
Ruhr industry has also aroused
deep indignation among the de-
mocratic sections of the German
people.

In its recently published state-
ment, the presidium of the Ger-
man People’s Council declared
that this decision “signifies the

‘transfer of the most important

coal-mining and metallurgical
centers of Germany to the big in-
dustrialists Who financed Hitler,
organized the Second World War.
and who bear the main respon-
sibility for the chaos and tl
in Europe.”

However, the decision of the
American and British authorities
on the Ruhr is not surprising in
the least. It is a logical result of
the imperialist, treacherous policy

Function of the organization
department of the “Eastern Bur-
eau” is the instruction and
briefing of “couriers’ who main-
tain contact with espionage
agents in the Soviet occupation
zone. The organization depart-
ment keeps lists with the names
and addresses of all agents and
couriers, provides railway  tick-
ets, counterfeit travel and iden-
tity documents. _

_. The personne] department re-
cruits new agents and couriers
for the Social Democrat espion-
age center. The recruiting is
done through “Refugee Aid”
which pays special attention to
persons who run away from
the Soviet occupation zone or the
new democracies.

The records department edits
the espionage reports brought in
over the “pink network.” Reports
brought in by courier are typed
in five copies, of which two
photostats are made. An original
copy of each report goes direct-
ly to party leader Kurt Schu-
macher, or in his absence to
deputy chairman  Ollenhauer.
The second copy goes to the
Hanover representative of the
American Counter - Intelligence
Corps, and the third to the Brit-

ish Intelligence Service through

the Hanover branch of FSS.
The fourth copy goes to a

representative of the British In-

fie garcia the Social

pursued by the Western powers
in Germany.

The Soviet people have repeat-
edly warned the peoples of Eur-
ope against the policy pursued by
the American, British and French
authorities with regard to West-
ern Germany, and the Ruhr in
particular.

The’ Warsaw conference of the
foreign ministers of the USSR
and of the new democracies, held
last summer, recommended es-
tablishment for a definite period
of four-power control by the
USSR, the U.S. Britain and
France over Ruhr heavy. industry,
in line with the earlier agree-
ments between the Allied powers.
Only this settlement of the Ruhr
question would accord with the
interests of the nation and
assist in promoting a_ stable
peace between them.

Marshall's statement lays bare —
the real aims of the American
monopolies and their henchmen in
Europe and makes it plain to all
the peace-loving peoples that it
is their duty to intensify their
struggle against these criminal
designs, and to mobilize all their
forces in support of a real peace
policy as suggested in proposals
advanced by the Soviet govern-
ment,

e@ J. Mirov is a commentator for

the Soviet Information Bureau.

Democrat headquarters itself, to
the “press chief” Fritz Heine.
The last copy is for filing.

4

The Right-wing Socialist poli-
ticians at Clacton had _ before
them for discussion a draft
scheme for organization. The
basic proposal of this document
is the creation of “cells of five”
in those countries where work-
ing class unity has put an end
to the reactionary domination of
the Social Democratic parties.
These “Fuenfer Gruppen,’ as
they are called in the German
draft scheme, are to be armed
and centrally directed to com-
mit sabotage and terrorism in
those countries and in the So-
viet occupation zone of Germany.

This “action scheme” was
conceived first by the U.S. state
department, which long ago saw
in Comisco a much-needed po-
litical apparatus which would in-
herit the functions of Operation
X—“code” name for the Ame
ean espionage and terrorist pro-
gram which is now admitted to
have been a failure in that form.
“Diffusion”
Sabotage activities has now
come the general policy of the
Anglo-American intelligence set
vices whose efforts, particu
those of its American bra
have ended in failure as a re!
‘of capture and exposure of
many agents sent eet Bay
and Austria into Cz 0
Hitnanid. Aaniary, and Pol