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...That Was War." To travel round Germany now is to realize how strongly, even fiercely, that trait of looking after their own is re-emerging among the Germans. Last year they would not have dared protest as vehemently as they did last week over the revised Anglo-American list of factories to be removed for reparations-though the new list has only 682 plants compared to the original figure...
Communist headquarters in Berlin have instructed their agents in Western Germany to "utilize to the fullest possible extent the dismantling issue to mobilize toilers in a militant protest against Anglo-American reaction." If such protests are effective, German production will be cut and realization of the Marshall Plan will be hamstrung...
TIME'S Berlin Bureau warned: "Strikes are almost certain to occur and Social-Democratic and Catholic unionists may stop Anglo-American bullets on the picket lines if trouble starts. If some trigger-happy Tommies or G.I.s begin shooting, Germany's all-important working class center (members of the Socialist and Christian Democratic Union parties) might be pushed right into the Communist lap, where they will be reassured to feel that they had the 'support of brother working class parties of the Cominform countries...
...these Americans, the dossier held a clue. Stalin has said: "Two principal but polar systems of attraction are being created in the world: the Anglo-American center for the bourgeois governments, and the Soviet Union for the workers of the West and the revolutionary East...
...have traveled a long way in opinion since I spoke at Fulton, under the auspices of the President, 18 months ago, and many things which were startling or disputable then have now become the foundation of dominant Anglo-American thought...