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Coming up on the right as a new dark-horse party is the Nazi-tainted All-German Bloc of refugees (expected to poll 10% of the vote), which makes a big appeal to the rootless 11 million Germans who fled or were expelled from the East Zone and former German territories...
Politics. When the East-German puppet government proposed a discussion of all-German elections, Konrad Adenauer's government (to the applause of even its Socialist opponents) dismissed the bid in a single blistering sentence: "One does not negotiate with marionettes...
...skepticism, Adenauer might lose an election to the West German Social Democrats, who are not as adamant as he in refusing to dicker with the Communists. Adenauer also fears that the Russian moves might lead to Big Four negotiations over Germany, in which the Germans would have no voice. "Bismarck," he said, "spoke of his nightmare of a foreign coalition against Germany. I also have a nightmare. Its name is Potsdam." He demanded more convincing Communist concessions: the release of 300,000 German P.W.s still held in Russia, and free, all-German elections. "Anything less," said Adenauer, "would...
...Kremlin last week, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky handed out identical notes to the Ambassadors of the U.S., Britain and France, proposing a Big Four conference, not later than October, on the question of an all-German government and a German peace treaty. This was the latest of many Kremlin attempts to weaken the alignment of the Bonn government with the West by holding up the illusory prospect of "unification." More & more Germans are waking up to the fact that the only unity Russia really wants for Germany is the graveyard unity of total Soviet control...
...insult" to the German people. On the surface this looked like a change of stance for the Russians-but the gimmick was not hard to find. The election commission was relegated to Item 3 on the proposed agenda. Items 1 and 2 would deal with the framing of the all-German government and the peace treaty. Thus, in a Panmunjom type of marathon, the Russian negotiators could haggle and stall endlessly over Items 1 and 2, meanwhile holding up the European Army...