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Show Allied Quandary Do Germans Play West Against East? By Evsrt A. Graham tr. Of St. Louis Post-Dispatch Staff FRANKFURT, Germany Democracy, torn observer think, ti making alow headway in the east-west struggle for the soul of Germany. There is, however, no reason to believe that the weat haa a considerable advantage. Ruaata offer a Ufa of hard work and the eaey way out of letting the state do all the thinking. think-ing. The weat offera freedom and the continuing effort neces-aary neces-aary for a people to govern itself. Democracy In Weat Germany la fighting authoritarian, nationalism, na-tionalism, anti-Semitism. Its most potent opposition is the strongly antl-democrstlc tradition tradi-tion to which Germans hav been accustomed for centuries. Appeal to Nationalism The Communists claim that they have eliminated nationalism national-ism In the eastern, zone. At the same time they make braxea appeals to nationalist sentiment In the western lone. They demand de-mand unification of Germany. an end of the occupation, return" of the Saar industrial region. These demands are directed t all the disgruntled Germans, and they have some effect West Germans have accepted allied occupation for four years aa a necessary evil. They arc now becoming restive. The allies cams to Germsny with three major occupation goals: punishment, assurance against aggression, education. The punishment phase met at first with almost no opposition. Many had expected harsher treatment Denazification was generally approved, haa now almost al-most run It course. Many Nazi managed to retain or be restored to their Jobs. United States High Commissioner John J. McCloy think th time 1 approaching whan the German people must be tested less on what they did or did not do 10 years ago, more on what they intend to da Part ef Fualshnwat Dismantling of Industrie I f art of th punishment program, t la also designed to cut into Germany war making power. It brought th first clash between be-tween th German and th occupation oc-cupation powers, caused some different of opinion between the alltea. As they get further away from the war, many Germans are protesting that Germany's status a a world pariah haa gone oa long enough. Meat contributed only passively to naxism, didn't realise they war committing any crime, because nazlsm was founded on many of Germany' cherished ideals. Americsn officials think Germany' Ger-many' politics! parties ar badly bad-ly in need of publicity. The partie ar closed corporation which control th government through decisions made at ' secret caucuses. Result I th government la run by" party leader lead-er and functionaries with no contact with th public. TJ. S. Most Popular After four year, Americans seem to be meat popular of th occupying powers, th French the least. In th ess of th United State, th view Is that It haa no selfish Interest Involved. In-volved. Marshall plan aid 1 a factor. Bom conservative Industrialist point to Britain, complain that thSwMarshall plan Is aiding th advance of socialism. An increasing in-creasing number of "little" Germans Ger-mans however, thinks that the Marshall plan is intended to aid people who do not hav enough to eat or ar homeleae." West Germans, however, turn' to France when they look to th future. Many of them cannot understand why the world regards re-gards them aa a danger. Russia, they think, la th danger. They want to be Included in any economic ec-onomic or political unification of western Europe. ' ' Th French, and other on- servers, are skeptical of th ' sudden turn to internationalism. "They've takes off naaism Uk a dirty shirt" aa American official said angrily., "Now they expect nothing out of ua but help. They're holding communism com-munism like a club over our .heeds." Whether or not th Germans ar playing off th west against the east for their own advantage advan-tage th west now ha been forced into the position of finding find-ing a way to provide for both Europe' and western Per--many security. .' j Oa Soluttoa - On solution could be inclusion of Germany in a European union In whlih all countries would give up some of their sovereign rights. Th Bonn basic law specifically provide for such a yielding of Germaa right. Two major upheaval in world thought must occur for the solution solu-tion to be possible. The hated enemy ot a few short years ago must ' be accepted a a full partner. A working western European union must be established. estab-lished. In th meantime, the west haa million of potent allies ia it atruggl with th east The millions of refugee from th east, th former soldiers, th returned prisoner of war. Almost Al-most all detect eoiamoiuam, talk constantly against 1U |