SUGGESTIONS FOR GERMANY
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends Suggestions for Germany By William Henry Chamberlin r^p HE National Council loi the Prevention I of War has offered five concrete suggestions on American policy toward...
...South and Central Americans, dedicated to the proposition that democracy should take the offensive in this Hemisphere...
...Freedom of speech, labor activities, freedom of the press, due recourse lo law, free elections . . . have been violated...
...His formula for Germany's future could hardly be improved...
...It is to give heart lo the inarticulate that we...
...peace" fronts organized b\ the Communists, and will attain its objective of establishing a permanent body iif ileum...
...There is certainly a good ease for encouraging student exchange and for allowing expelled Germans to participate in the benefits of the IRO...
...41 Addition to the ECA Bill of a section to the effect that no postwar territorial acquisition by one participating country al the expense of another shall be considered permanent, unless agreed on in a peace treaty...
...i .tin forces in the...
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...This stall- of affairs, it is easy to understand, threatens harmonious relations among all American nations, and plays into the hands of the new Russian imperialism We hope that the Inter American Conference for Democracy anu Freedom will prove to be an effective answer to tbe spurious "democratic...
...Where the News Ends Suggestions for Germany By William Henry Chamberlin r^p HE National Council loi the Prevention I of War has offered five concrete suggestions on American policy toward Germany in connection with the enactment of new legis lation extending American aid to West Europe during 1950 and 1951...
...Of these suggestions (2) is at once the most important and the one which comes most clearly within the realm of the ECA Bill...
...2) That participating countries remove any limitation or prohibition imposed jointly or singly on the industry of another participating country or area...
...Somewhat questionable is the suggestion to sweep away all limitations on East-West trade...
...The proposals, presented to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in the form of proposed amendments to the FX:A legislation, may be summarized as follows: (1) That the uae of counterpart funds for the international exchange and housing of students and other educational personnel be specifically authorized...
...5) The elimination of a subsection which obstructs East-West trade...
...Four ol these suggestions are thoroughly desirable and deserve the support of all genuine liberrls interested in a viable united Europe and in winning the cold war...
...Now there has emerged a committee, composed of North...
...who believe in freedom and in human rights, have elected to meet "As a body, we recognize that there is a dual danger III lit din America...
...A German Scholar's Judgment A venerable German scholar with a ripe, humane and truly European world outlook has just published a thoughtful, searching examination of the causes of Germany's fall, and of its prospects i;i the future (The German Catastrophe, by Fi ledrich Memecke...
...Hemisphere...
...This second suggestion, however, is not of great practical importance, because the resources of the IRO are limited and its work will soon he wound up...
...Us purpose, in the words of tbe Committee, "is to unite, for the lirst time in the history of Inter-American relations, tbe democratic forces of twenty-one countries, in an effort to arouse the public opinion of all countries to a defense of democratic ideals and civil and political liberties " The Committee's declaration' continues: "Today, unfortunately, there are millions of our fellow-Americans in this Hemisphere unable to speak out in their own defense or in that of their compatriots, because in an alarming number of American countries all civil and political liberties have been suppressed...
...They are a serious cause of unemployment...
...Here there is a sharp conflict between politics and economics...
...3) That the ECA Administrator should encourage the modification of the constitution of the International Refugee Organization so as to bring the twelve million Germans and people of German origin who have been expelled from their homes within its care and concern...
...It would perhaps be better if there could be a pooling of the resources and experience of all humanitarian organizations which have been working in Germany, with the support of the High Commissioners' offices, with a view to promoting the maximum degree of social and economic absorption of these refugees...
...A Question Worth Asking "Why is Stalin, the greatest living violator of human rights, not indicted for genocide' lb- is as guilty as any of the Nuernberg, de fondants who were hanged for that crime" Nathan I) .Shapiro, in a letter to the New York Herald Tribune Democracy From Below ALERT AMERICANS have for some time been noting with alarm the spread of L military-fascist dictatorships in many of the countries to the south of us...
...Actually, in these countries, conditions are in no way diitcient than those which obtain behind the iron curtain or in Nazi Germany during the days ot Hitler...
...While most of the Latin American dictatorships are neo-fascist and military in character, communist forces have been quick to take advantage of the contusion anu the misery of the people to sow their own seeds and in most of the dictatorship countries fascists and communists have united in an unholv alliance, joined in tin- one ideologv of suppression of all civil and political freedoms...
...This little book will probably carry more weight in Germany because the author writes in tinspirit of a civilized German, not of an embittered emigre...
...vrrfrtsr the auspices of an "Organizing Commit tee" representative of groups and individuals active in the fields of inter-American relations, labor, civil rights and education...
...and arguments on both sides should be carefully studied...
...called forth entirely new historical phenomena...
...Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, is one reminder that democracy in Latin America is by no means dead...
...PRIZE WINNER Most of the Stalin prizes in literature mere awarded for works having anti-Ameruan and anti-Western themes...
...America cannot "integrate" Europe overnight or force tbe Soviet Union, short of war, to consent to free elections in East Germany or compel Poland and Czechoslovakia to restore ethnic German territory or to permit the expelled Germans to return to their homes There is every reason, political and economic, to press lor the quickest possible elimination of all discriminations imposed on German industry and foreign trade...
...News item Though weak bo the word In novel or ballad...
...In its memorandum the Council very accurately gives the following reasons for this unemployment: Failure of European integration, prohibition and limitations on industry by the occupation powers, immense surplus of population due to expulsions, partitioning of Germany, loss of productive areas, such as the Saar and Eastern Germany, bans mi Fast-West trade...
...The fifth is more debatable, but raises a point that deserves serious examination...
...Meinecke has passed his eighty-seventh birthday But his judgment remains clear and vigorous...
...We can win back power only as a member of a future federation, voluntarily concluded, of the central and west European slates," He puts the question: "Must we not always be shocked at the precipitous fall from the heights of the Goeihe era to the swamps of the Hitler period9" And in trying to find the answer to this question he offers some shrewd observations which apply not only to German, hut to world politics He sees the basic dynamic force of the past century and a half in "the enormous increase in the population which by its pressure ha...
...So long as we maintain security restrictions on exports to the Soviet Union and its satellites, there is obviously a case for not allowing West Germany to become a gaping hole in this blockade...
...1- i: <¦ ABOUT SOME of these causes there is unfortunately little that can be done...
...Yet the difficulty of maintaining a toleifablrstandard of living in West Germany isf en hanced by the absence of access toEastEujo^»£a#r" foodstuffs and -+»w mr-'erinh Prrfi ip a fair interim solution would be to permit Germany to export whatever Britain and other western powers are now selling in eastern markets...
...Though plot be absurd And characters pallid, Though style be as wood And content quite scanty, It will win if it's good— That is, good and antII ' Richard Mm our...
...An Inter-American Conference on Democracy and Freedom will convene in Havana May 12-14...
...These discriminations apply especially in the steel, shipbuilding and chemical industries...
...Fay Harvard University Press...
...The recent visit to the United States of Chile's President...
...West Germany now suiters from serious unemployment, with some two million people out of work...
...and unemployment is grist to the mills of communist and neo-Nazi agitators The discriminations should be abolished immediately...
...Dr...
Vol. 33 • April 1950 • No. 17
