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Show i Soviet Germany Drive Causes French Worry By Paul Ghall t Chicago Daily tNews Service t PARIS, June 25 The new Soviet line on Germany, launched ' Thursday by the eight behind-the- iron-curtain foreign ministers at Warsaw, provides France a fresh worry. Political analysts here Friday are envisioning another split in Premier Schuman's parliamentary majority as a result As they see it, the Socialists will approve the ly, that Franca remains unwilling to be bound to the automatic application ap-plication of the clause "most favored fa-vored nation" . to Germany and Japan. However, the eoal agreement by which this country gets part of future deliveries at the old rate of 110 francs to the dollar remains re-mains a touchy subject The leftist left-ist press claims that if France still needs American coal, it is because be-cause Ruhr coal is unavailable and France's "American-sold" government gov-ernment forbids the purchase of coal from Poland. . To the American public' this French attitude may well sound ungrateful. But the real truth Is France's man in the street has had much more Information during the last fortnight about the Franco-American Franco-American differences in Washington Washing-ton than about the amount and distribution of Marshall aid. desperately needs planes to supply its own occupation sector and is too poor to meet increased expenses ex-penses arising from new trouble. 2. The French, as proved by recent national assembly debates, are not keen on the American policy pol-icy in Germany, nor are they fond of American military governor Gen. Clay himself. A whispering campaign describing Clay as unfriendly un-friendly to France, although completely com-pletely unfounded, according to those close to him, has not helped. The general is said here to have a completely free hand In Germany and to be solely responsible for the policy followed by Washington. French Net Happy - His leadership In the current Berlin situation does not make the French very happy. 3. The coincidence of the Berlin Ber-lin trouble with the Communist-inspired Communist-inspired anti-American campaign within this country. The campaigners campaign-ers are finding good arguments in the prolonged discussion in Washington Wash-ington of the Marshall plan bilateral bilat-eral treaty. All but one point of difference apparently has been settled, name- Russians' drive for a united Germany Ger-many and possibly even their demands de-mands for quadripartite control of the Ruhr. During the Socialist congress In Vienna last month, attended by all Socialists from western Europe, a motion calling for a united Germany Ger-many was unanimously voted. , Approve Ross Share Furthermore, some French . Socialists So-cialists are known to approve allowing al-lowing the Russians to share in the Ruhr as one of the minimum concessions con-cessions the west could afford to make to the east in exchange for a peace agreement . Right now France feels itself the weak point In the western front against Soviet maneuvers both In Berlin and In Warsaw. Thursday the French found themselves in the same Berlin boat as the British Brit-ish and Americans, but in a somewhat some-what less than convincing tone. France's particular views on the German question as well as certain cer-tain internal political factors are, of course, responsible for this attitude. atti-tude. For example: Failed to Set Up Plaa 1. Frenchmen by and large cannot forget that the western powers failed to set up a coordinated coordi-nated plan of action to meet the situation developing in Berlin. It is felt here that the Russian bluff could be called if some trump cards were In hand, such as coordination coor-dination and military strength. During the London confesence the chief French delegate, when asked if France would support American resistance in Berlin by force, he replied, ".What force?" The fact of the matter is France |
