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Show (Ssliind the Jveadfined There has been as yet no real thought of cancelling the scheduled sched-uled East-West Summit Conference Confer-ence in Paris May 16. Yet, although al-though the summit will probably come off as planned, the distinct dis-tinct possibility of cancellation or postponement has become an open secret in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. These Summit rearmament and shake foreign and domestic support of the Adenauer regime. They hurt the whole Western position on Berlin, and the twin Adenaued-DeGaulle crises also weaken the great pre-Summit drive France and West Germany alone have been waging for a strong, tough Western stand on Berlin. London is reported more determined than ever to brush aside Paris and Bonn to compromise com-promise with Khrushchev on Berlin. Khrushchev is believed eager to take advantage of continued unrest among NATO's key allies rather than use it as an excuse to avoid the Summit. The important im-portant fact is that events in Paris and Bonn give Khrushchev new flexibility in his pre-Summit jockeying, new hope for deepening the split in the Western West-ern alliance and for expecting a "soft" Western stand on Berlin. Meantime official Washington has been far less concerned over West German swastika smear-ings, smear-ings, etc., than by Adenauer's own reaction to them. Adenauer has called on the German people to "beat up" the neo-Nazis and swastika painters whenever they are discovered, j U.S. State Department officials still trying to develop democracy in West Germany, are highly critical of Adenauer for appealing appeal-ing to "mob justice." He is being widely criticized for urging that law and the courts be bypassed in coping with the posibility that Nazism may be on the march. But he real fear is that Adenauer's Ade-nauer's call for "mob justice" may start open brawling between Rightist German political elements ele-ments and Adenauer Democrats just as Rightist street fighting threatens DeGaulle's regime. Many critics of Adenauer's "beat 'em up" policy also recall that Hitler himself wrote in his book "Mein Kampf" that "In the first period of our movement's move-ment's history we suffered from nothing so much as from the insignificance, in-significance, the unknowness of our names. If people had attacked at-tacked us in those days, he said, "yes, even if they had laughed at us, we should have been happy. The oppressive thing was the complete lack of attention." "We attracted attention when politcal opponents resorted to force to break up our meetings." The incidents gave Hitler's Nazis an excuse to organize cadres of "monitors" to keep order during their meetings. But Hitler said, "how those lads did fight!" The Nazi opponents' tactics of meeting force with force gave Hitler an excuse to begin building build-ing up his storm troopers and bully boys to "maintain order" at their own meetings. From then on, force clashed with force in pre-war, pre-Hitler Germany until chaos developed so that the weak Hindenburg regime called on Hitler and his bully boys to restore order. And with that he had come to power, through violence vio-lence just as the neo Fascists and rightists seek to topple Degaulle. talks are not scheduled until mid May, but rumors of delay come as preparatory, Western pre-Summit pre-Summit talks are now getting under way. To begin with, many co-existence critics believe the Soviet Union may even be resuming its pre-Camp David "tough line," if only to prod the West to continue con-tinue its path to the Summit and strengthen Khrushchev's bargaining bar-gaining position. Many observers believe that Khrushchev is also tempted to delay making any real concessions conces-sions at the May Summit conference, confer-ence, despite his original hurry, until the U.S. elections are over. It is known that Khrushchev wants assurance that any Summit Sum-mit agreements reached with the retiring President Eisenhower may not be repudiated after the election of Vice President Nixon or a Democrat in November. However, these possibilities for delaying May's long awaited Summitry are considered least likely. The real possibility of any delay at all loomed with the French Government crisis. Even as the world's diplomats began focusing their attention on pre-Summit preparations, the Algerian rightist revolt against President De Gaulle threatened to spread to France itself, engulf en-gulf Paris the Summit's host city in civil war, or plunge France into a new leadership vacuum. Even if he survived the crisis, DeGaulle is felt determined to boycott any international conference con-ference in which seriously weakened weak-ened prestige would prevent him from sitting as an equal, or at least as unchallenged spokesman for France. Moscow was also felt to feel that it would be pointless to negotiate any real problems with DeGaulle, if a new France coup only toppled DeGaulle or repudiated any Summit agreement agree-ment he made. Yet, while the French government govern-ment crisis and spectre of open civil war threatened the Western coalition, NATO, the Summit talks ,and even Paris as host city it was also West Germany that caused deep concern. West Germany is not scheduled to sit on the Summit talks, but Khrushchev's Berlin threat, German Ger-man reunification and European security are what the East-West Summitry is all about. So both East and West Germany would play a key role behind the scenes is not publicy at the Summit negotiations. ne-gotiations. For this reason the West, especially espe-cially war ravaged Great Britain and France as well as the pro-Adenauer pro-Adenauer U. S., are quite disturbed dis-turbed by the current wave of neo-Nazism, anti-Semitism and swastika smearings which have attracted attention. There is less Western alarm than there might over whether these portend a Nazi revival. The immediate diplomatic concern is that whether neo-Nazism, anti-Semitism anti-Semitism and swastika smearing is a Nazi revival or Communist inspired, as some believe, they tend, either way, to discredit Mr. Adenauer. They undermine the power, prestige and moral position of West Germany, create grave new doubts about German |