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...meet this crisis the West must know and measure this shrewd exploitation of Europe's fears. It can never assume that the Ruhr miner or the Normandy peasant, for all his rude wisdom, will shrug off a Moscow overture as just an empty political move. He will never surrender his worn hope for peace simply because political sophisticates of the Western capitals say that Moscow is just up to its old tricks. The sophisticates will have to expose the tricks. If that is done with clarity and integrity, the West need have no fear. Precisely because the miner...
...week long in Berlin the desultory brabbling between the Western Powers and the Russians flared, faded, flared again. The light generated there illuminated little save irreconcilable differences. But 350 miles to the west, in the heart of the industrial Ruhr, the flickerings revealed how much closer was a Western German state...
Last January the British Foreign Office released a hair-raising document called "Protocol M" (TIME, Jan. 26). It purported to be a Cominform blueprint for a Communist-led general strike in the Ruhr aimed at crippling coal production and hampering the Marshall Plan. Its deadline for action was March...
...March passed without a Ruhr general strike. Last week the New York Times's persistent Chief European Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger reported, from a "completely reliable source," that Protocol M was a forgery. The British government, which in January had stoutly asserted "[we] believe this document to be genuine," responded to Sulzberger's report with a limp and embarrassed "no comment...
...Coal Comes Up. Meanwhile, more sensible occupation policies, including incentive rations, have been stepping up Ruhr production of the coal all Europe needs. A year ago coal production was running at about 235,000 tons a day. One day last week it hit a postwar high- 291,000 tons. The area that used to produce 22% of all the coal and 31% of all the steel in Europe was going to work for peace...