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...Oberhausen, in Germany's Ruhr, a worker hurried toward the gate of a steel mill with a bag of black bread sandwiches under...
...Ruhr's third successive week of strikes for more food, there were no banners, no picket lines, no disorders. At Duisburg, Mülheim and Dinslaken, 50,000 workers walked out briefly, then returned quietly and took up their tools again. Such was the troubled surface mood. But beneath the surface in Germany lay a deeper tension. It tightened suddenly last week when the British intercepted and published a detailed plan for churning Western Germany into riot-"Protocol M"-and pinned responsibility on the Belgrade Cominform...
...final struggle. . . ." Then the language became more explicit. Communist cadres would foment hunger demonstrations among factory workers to disrupt production. Transport workers would be prodded to tie up food distribution. The timetable charted general strikes for March, when stocks of fall potatoes would be running out and the Ruhr would be at its hungriest. "The Soviet Union," ran the assurance, "can and will support this battle. . . . The Communist Information Bureau in Belgrade will coordinate...
...idea. Sneered Soviet-licensed Berlin am Mittag: "Auntie fainted and the dachshund howled with terror as news of the plot came over the radio. . . ." But other Germans asked themselves: Didn't Protocol M check with Moscow's avowed aim to wreck ERP? Wasn't the Ruhr a logical Communist objective? If the protocol was not the gospel from Belgrade, what was the gospel...
...Some Ruhr Communists, who were almost ready to believe that a little U.S. aid might do Germany no harm, felt especially troubled...