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The Nazis must
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manded the Italian Highth Army
at Stalingrad; he burned down
hun dreds of villages in the .
Ukraine, He has-as his collabor- .
_ ator another Nazi general,, Heu-
: Singer, who also took part in the
eo: attack on the Soviet Union.
_ Where'were thé plans approved
by the Americans for the rebuild_
ing of ‘the German army worked |
Out? In Landsberg jail, where
_ the war criminals condemned by
__ the Nuremberg Tribunal were un-
til recently held. With the con-
S Sent. of the Americans, General
Hans Speidel requested his
. brother, ‘General Wilhelm Speidel,
Who was condemmed for ruthlessly
~ Massacring Greeks to draw up a
Project for the réssurrection of
the Wehrmacht. Their army was
born in jail. Its architects are
aes » convicts, infanticides: and geno=
“  Cides, rs
~The army they are rebuilding
Was conceived in the fascist un-
 derground, among officers of SS
divisions, There you | might hear _
the names of General von Man-
teuffel, former commander of
“Greater Germany,” of SS chiefs
Pe Hetmut Beck-Breusichter and Al-
fred Frankgrich,\ of Major-Gen-
a le Otto Remer, Fritz Dorlz and
€dler. of the Deutche Reichs-

. -Partei, and of the so-called “new
oe - Fuhrer?” Alfred Loritz. i
_ The atmosphere prevailing there |
Was that of the Munich beerhall,
Where began the career of the
-™an who reduced hundreds of
Sten to ruins, the man whose
Memory is cursed by all. the
- others of the world.

The fascist underground has
» Come out into the open; it talks.
Conceitedly with the. Ame: icant

food; special correspondents. They
lack only one thing: soldiers.
They have dragged to Korea,
Turks and Greeks, Dutchmen and
‘Frenchmen, Columbians and Eng-
lishmen. Now they are. looking
for soldiers for an attack on Rus-
sia. They have not forgotten

German divisions, enfeebled
though they were -by the: battles
om the Eastern front, neverthe-
less ‘struck a heavy blow at
Eisenhower’s armies in the Ar-
dennes. They are seeking to buy
in Germany cannon fodder of
prime quality. :

This I affirm not on the basis
of conjectures, but on the basis
of public statements made by gar-
rulous Americans. Senator John-.
son recently proposed the recruit-
ment of a foretgn legion, consist-
ing chiefly of Germans,
million men strong, He said quite
frankly: ‘This will save the lives
of a million young. Americans.”
His colleague, Senator Lodge, ob-
jected; “We must ‘recruit not one
million, but two.”

‘They are keeping displaced per-
sons from Silesia, Pomerania and
the Sudetan region in barracks,
in compounds, and telling them:
“You will soon go to win back
your lost lands.”

e.. Ns
cerned think of this? I am not

are now building a new life and
who, together with all honest peo-
ple, are fighting for peace arfd
fraternity among men. I am re
ferring t to those . other. Germans,
who were doped
of Nazism and who retained their.

-Eberbach insists that the honour . hour and recoiled from: him» not
 °f the Nazi be rehabilitated at ‘because he had started a criminal
(once: “We are no soldiers ‘of the war, but because “he lost that
devil, We also fought the Com- war.
' Munists,” he says. And in. reply, -
McCloy signs orders amnestying —
War criminals.
: Tt is probable that we shall soon
See condemned SS men wearing
ican medals. That will

scarcely surprise anyone. Of what
oT MacArthur ‘accuse the Nazi famous war of conquest, but» be-
cendiaries? Does it. ‘befit Ku cause they® doubt whether the
4 ; ‘Klanners who lynch Negroes Americans are capable of winning
: © censure Ss men who. slew mil- that avar. They know that the
lions of Jews? And how can Mr. Americans usually. leave it to
‘ruman, who is preaching a cru- others to do the Ashting, and
ee against Communism, refrain themselves come in ‘at the kill,

™m taking off his hat to the

Nelniets of his predecessors?
on - Krupp, the man who.
shed

ers? I think not. They argue
just as cynically as their Ameri-
can partners. ‘They receive their
promises coldly, not because the
Americans are plotting an in-

“> the German working people, who
learned to know the vileness of
Hitler to become Hitler, fascism, are incensed at the re-
Nay © man who took ransom from
t Ty shot and from every corpse, the ‘wrathful voice of the German
he man who three years ago was people is loudly. to be heard in.
Sondemned to twelve years’ im-
Sonment and confiscation of also be heard in Western Ger-
Pete is now at liberty, All many, in spite of all the prohibi-
him Property has been restored £0; tions, browbeating and persecur
: Only yesterday he was a_ tion.’ I am convinced that if the
ee, ‘today he is armorersin- occupation authorities were to 2
Whee The instigators of war have low a popular referendum / on
" whether the Wehrmacht should be

wn off all shyness; they are.
ashamed of the embrace of rebuilt or not, nine-tenths of the

en, no of the handclasp of Germans. Sibi rail thes
alent | Rebuildi the Germ

‘ eds res 3 in any mag and revival of Ger-
many’s war industry, s such as is
it PI A that taking place in Western Germany, —
a Blanner who in his has aroused the indignation of
Naa Stigmatized the crimes of peace-loving people , an, over the

ss

x, tat

‘is now fraternizing wor

“them. He is not squeamish, — The “American newspapers, of

eourse;

munists are~ opposed ‘to the re-

"militarization ‘of Germany. But

that is another one of their lies.

: Louis Marin, one of the oldest

eae in rance, is neither a

Socialist, but a
a

American: with him, prin-_

a are rin
: ‘sting ciples, but business —

nw who are vow

those last days of 1944, when the »

and a.

And what. do the people con- —

referring to those Germans who ©

»feoo-e Should. these. ists, not re-
‘with the poison | _ ‘the distribu

_amnon-fodder recruiters. General, faith in Hitler down to the last —

Are they prepared to accept the 5
councils of the American recruit-

man of ae Piet Ale

party.
Barth, is not a Communist. Brit-

- It need scarcely be said that —

- munist. —
-surrection of the Nazi _army. The

the Demoeratic’ Republic, it may ~

“tional organization that embraces.

‘much as it: degacs lead #0. war in’

_ lovers are playing, Germany must

claim that only the Com- —

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a een ee OEE RE

The electoral.

based coming Sunday, June 17,

_ the French people will go
to the polls to elect a new na-
tional assembly—but not the

Oise, the old system of pro-
portional representation will
b2 maintained. The reason
for this is the fear that in the

through the old assembly by
the government only after it
had been challenged by repeat-
ed votes .of confidence, has,
stacked the cards against the
people.
- The Communists, who re-
ceived nearly six million votes
in the last election, were the
largest single party in the old
“assembly. The purpose of the
new electoral law, which now
‘replaces the former system of
proportional representation, is, 8
to reduce the number of Com-
‘munist and progressive depu-
ties in the new assembly—in
effect, to disfranchise millions
of ‘French voters,

Under the new system, depu-
ties from all departments;: ex-.
cept the Seine and Seine- et- i
Oise, will be elected by a single =
majority vote. Each party
will present a jlist of candi-
dates and party electoral alli-
ances are permitted. This
means -that parties may com-
bine in at least 30 depart-_
. ments merely by a _ declara-
tion at the prefecture three
days before the commencement
of the electoral campaign.

If one list receives a majori-
ty ‘it gets all the seats. ne he
these lists.obtain an absolute against whom, he thinks he is
majority—51 percent—in dis- voting. ,
tributing seats, all votes poll- oe :
ed by them would be added
together and counted against
the votes cast for the Com-
munists.

ly presented, party combina-
tions: will be literally arranged
behind the voters’ backs. Thus,
not only the Communist voter
will be deprived. of his right
to select his. deputy but the
‘nomCommunist voter will also
be cheated. In the belief

ed list of nominees, he will,
contrary to his. wishes, facili-

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JACQUES DUCLOS

tate the election of candidates

The French people have al-
ready found an apt name for
this new law.
“Electoral Fraud.” Even the
conservative London Times
hh vie a major ;
tion of seats. will’ ee done pro-
-portionally, but following a
system - which” greatly favors
the combined lists. The non-
allied list, even if it should
obtain 49 percent of the votes,
will not have a single deputy. |

Pan rat Seine nee Seine-et- :

: democratic character of eer
new law in an editorial.

The new law, the Times said,
is “one in which it is not easy
for a believer in the democratic
system to take much pride.”
The paper points out that “the
new law, then, is a frank at-

national ‘assembly of their workers’ districts of Paris the
choice. .. The new electoral Communists will receive an
law, inspired by the U.S.-State absolute majority. _
Department and pushed As each list will be separate-

that he is voting for a select- .

They call it the ~

‘strongly criticized the anti-

de Gaulle to power,”

fraud —

tempt to influence the elec-
tions beforehand .. . in favor
of the democratie parties of
the centre,” It_adds: “There
must be something wrong with
a democracy which can main-
tain its position, only by aban-

ning the attempt to make.
its institutions truly represen-
tative.”. x

The fact that the French
government fixed the elections
before the appointed time—in
June instead of October, has
already aroused considerable
indignation in France. In ~
June, the workers commence
their paid vacations. Thus, if
the workers want to vote they
lose their holidays; if they
want their. holidays they lose
the opportunity to vote.

Another noticeable point is
that June 18, one day after the
elections, is the traditional day.
when the Gaullists hold their ‘
annual demonstration. Gen- |
eral de Gaulle has already pro- —
claimed: “When the. people
have spoken, I shall meet them
on the Ghamp Elysees.” Poli-
tical observers in Paris .believe
that this coincidence between
the two dates is too &triking
to be mere chance. a

The intention of the new
electoral. “reform” is clear. It —
means) the liquidation of all | ~°
democratic liberties and pav- ee
ing the way to power for fas-
cism. 2

In his speech to the old na-
tional assembly on May 7,
Jacques Duclos, general secre- _
tary of the French Commun- |
ist party, pointed out that the
French people could no longer
ignore the gravity of the situ-
ation and the peril which
threatened France. “I calmly
and firmly state that
shall not tolerate the rise of
the said,
concluding with an appeal “to
all those, without distinction
of opinion or creed, who want
to spare France from the
shame of fascism and the hor-
rors of war.”

:

the past. :

‘bers of parliament Fletcher and We comprise men and women
Mellish are not Communists, they
are members of the government
Thomas Mann, the writer,
is not a Communist. The ‘well-
known Swiss theologian, Karl

_ our business to compare the in-
_ ternal systems of the two halves
of Germany, their social structure,
their laws, their ideology. Where-
as in one of the halves of Ger-
ish Minister Dalton is not a Com- many youths are béing taught

‘munist. ‘Heinemann, former min- the way to brotherhood and in-
ister of the interior in the. ‘Bonn _ ternational solidarity, in the other
government, is not a .Communist. _ half revanche, hate and war are
Pastor sh Sine a) is not a Com- ‘preached. But it is our business

; and our duty to. declare that so

These are men who. think dif-—
ferently, but who are all opposed combustibles are being piled up in
to the armament of Germany. the heart of Europe which,may be.

They realize that the resurrection set alight by an American si

of the Wehrmacht may rapidly — arette\ butt. ‘

1 to c con ences. Sa atie :

on A tag amen = ‘The ‘Peace Council ‘must ae
Our high organ, ‘the World ‘mang the conclusion of a peace

Peace Council, the only interna- treaty with a neapeeble and unit-

ed. Germany.

genuine representatives: of the tn :

peoples, must unite the movement Ea. win se a gaze most _
against the remilitarization of of all to Europe. It is here, on
Germany, as being. ah Soa our old and glorious continent,
‘that the holocaust they long for

only ‘illegal, but ‘criminal, inas- ig to take place. U.S, Senator

Europe. _
In enee tarcibid game. the: war-

‘a nomad, a a man who Hs
incapable of understanding how
many. centuries, of labour and

- spiritual effort wer.
war industry. The German people — ‘e required to
4 create. Paris, Rome or London,
must be allowed to ‘rebuild Ger- wa 4
can say a: thing like. this.
many, to “work | in peace, to con- ‘
tribute their share to the world. ‘But to all who treasure asthe’
culture which they” enriched in” ss culture, to all ws) Tre-

revival of the German army and

of different views, and it is not

“long as Germany is split into two, “

aa the Uffizi and the Louvre, —
St. Sophia in Kiev and Chartres, |
Prague University and Oxford
University, Cracow and Cologne,
not as future bombing targets, but

as part of the living flesh of the _
spiritual motherland they love, I
address the appeal: Let us not ke
permit this calamity! ee aia

My people desire peace. Sik ee
recently on the Volga, in the
areas where the hydroelectric
stations are being built, and where
people, desiring to change the cli- _
mate, are planting tiny trees, I -
bring as witness of our great
devotion to-peace the old man |
who plants a year-old oak, and —
the mother who nurses her year-
old firstborn. .We know that the _
Soviet ‘government, loyal to the .
aspirations of the people, has pro-
posed that the Great Powers
‘should sign a Pact of Peace.

Ts the mad game of a handful

scant ya uhrdlce!

eo Seebeck
Ehyonhurs, world-famous