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...repeatedly told the German people that they might have an army and a free government after the war. But he had always conditioned that promise on the early overthrow of Hitler and an early surrender. Now Stalin said with Churchill and Roosevelt : "We are determined to disarm and disband all German armed forces; break up for all time the German General Staff ... remove all ... militarist influences." Political and economic disarmament would be equally complete and rigorous: "....Eliminate or control all German industry that could be used for military production . . . wipe out the Nazi party, Nazi laws, organizations and institutions...
This advice came from Columbia University's John Maurice Clark, author of Demobilization of War Economic Controls (McGraw-Hill; $1.75), third of a series of postwar studies sponsored by the Committee for Economic Development. Said he: "To follow lines of least resistance . . . and disband all controls instantly at the end of hostilities would be an invitation to chaos. This mistake was made after the First World War with results which were...
...demonstrating against the Government's ultimatum ordering guerrilla forces to disarm and disband by Dec. 10. A fortnight ago British Lieut. General Ronald MacKenzie Scobie had conferred with the EAM guerrilla leader, leftist General Stephanos Saraphis, and the EDES' leader, rightist General Napoleon Zervas. Zervas agreed to disarm his followers. Saraphis would not. General Scobie warned all Greeks: "I am convinced that in many parts of this country freedom of the people does not exist. ... [I am prepared to] stand by the side of the present constitutional Government until it has a national army under its banners...
...Communists have attacked Premier Hubert Pierlot. They have criticized his Government's courageous but unpopular deflation program (TIME, Nov. 6), its slowness in purging collaborators, its handling of food rationing and crippled communications. When Premier Pierlot last week ordered Belgian Resistance groups (40,000 strong) to disarm and disband, his three leftist ministers (two Communists and one Resistance) resigned in noisy protest...
...important question now was P.A.C.'s future. This was mainly up to PAChief Sidney Hillman and C.I.O. brain-trusters. Two things were certain: 1) P.A.C. would not disband; 2) it would be a potent pressure group in Washington...