BUILDING GERMAN MORALE
Building German Morale THE editors of the London Tribune, hard-hitting liberal weekly, jointly signed a recent editorial which bitterly denounced the Morgenthau Plan for -dismembering postwar...
...Consider the three aims of the peace separately: "Germany must be disarmed...
...The announcement of the Morgenthau Plan and other Allied schemes for revenge and dismemberment have provided "priceless help to German propaganda," and have been worth at least 20 divisions to the German High Command, the Tribute staff estimated...
...It is after all well established that under conditions of food shortage and overcrowding the children and those not yet born will suffer most...
...From the pattern supplied to Goering he was able to mass produce the same design within two years...
...She must be closely controlled...
...This can be done only by safe-guarding Germany from constant invasion...
...The destruction of the standard of living in Germany will affect every other country in Europe...
...Did not Germany secretly re-arm after the last war...
...They point out that the plan is "the outcome of confusion on the part of the statesmen concerned...
...Tanks and guns were advertised when Germany was allowed neither...
...Germany must be given possession of the Rhine fortresses from Ehren-breitstein down to Strasbourg, and so on and on...
...Later, Vickers [British armament trust] freely advertised their wares in the German military press...
...The U.S.A...
...Are we really to go through this whole business once again...
...When the matter of the super-charged aero engines was raised in Parliament the Government represented that, had we not supplied them, the French Comite des Forges would have done so...
...The answer is she did re-arm but not secretly...
...It will be a permanent menace to its neighbors...
...The robust Nazi will know how to get more than his share...
...They mix up three things they are trying to do: "1...
...She must have no air force of any kind, civil or military...
...France must be content...
...The century-old war-making tradition of France must be broken...
...But there was no will on the Allied side to execute the control that was in their hands...
...Allies Armed Germany "The tragedy is that these three aims get invariably mixed up...
...Adoption of the scheme presented by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., at the Roosevelt-Churchill conferences in Quebec, would create "a physical, economic, and political, as well as moral sore in Europe's body," the Tribune asserted...
...supplied Germany with the first dive-bomber prototype, and in 1933, after Goering had been refused a delivery of British planes, the Conservative Government granted a license for the export of two supercharged aero engines of military design...
...To prevent Germany from ever making war again...
...In that he said that the peace of Europe must be secured once and for all...
...As for retribution, the Quebec Plan may well lead to the escape of those most guilty and the punishment of those least...
...From the beginning the two left wing German weeklies run by Ossietsky and Schwarzschild ex-, posed every step toward rearmament...
...Now it is Germany...
...At tnis point we shall be told that all this was tried before and did not work...
...She must be prevented from manufacturing arms of any kind by close control...
...Then it was France...
...There was no secret about it...
...It will not help to create a peaceful and prosperous Europe if its single richest community is turned into a kind of Ghetto unable to trade, a source of infection and poverty...
...when the matter was raised in the French Chamber, the officials were told that if Schneider did not supply the Germans, Vickers would...
...It seems hardly necessary to go at length into the other two points required of a settlement...
...No, there was not much secrecy about Germany's rearmament, nor was there ever an attempt made to control it...
...In William Pitt's Time "Over a hundred years ago William Pitt circulated one of the most famous State Papers to the Kings' Ambassadors abroad...
...The social democrats, led by Paul Levi, exposed scandal after scandal in the Reichstag...
...It became, in fact, a profitable side line for the armament industry...
...Building German Morale THE editors of the London Tribune, hard-hitting liberal weekly, jointly signed a recent editorial which bitterly denounced the Morgenthau Plan for -dismembering postwar Germany...
...To exact retribution and punish the guilty...
...To create an organized and harmonious Europe out of the war...
Vol. 9 • January 1945 • No. 5
