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Last week Poles were laughing at such a story told on Wladyslaw Gomulka. Poland's Communist Vice Premier arrived in Katowice, capital of Upper Silesia, to make a speech. He ordered General Alexander Zawadzki, governor of the conquered area, to round up 50,000 people for the meeting. As the day wore on, Gomulka's demands got bigger. He demanded 100,000 people to listen to him, then 150,000, then 200,000. The population of Katowice is only 150,000. But a crowd of 200,000 turned out for the speech...
...first overseas press conference, Candidate Stassen was caught in no snap judgments. But at a private session he hammered away at one generalization: Europe's problems are essentially economic; at the heart of them is coal. Said he: "That leads you to the Saar and the Ruhr and Silesia. I'll have to go to Germany and Poland before I know the answer to that...
...there is no German disarmament. It is equally clear that everything which concerns German dis armament directly interests Russia. But if it is fair that the Russians should be with us in the Ruhr and on the Rhine, it is equally fair that we should be with them in Silesia and Saxony and on the Danube. I would even say that one of the essential merits of international con trol of the Ruhr is that it demands reciprocity...
Along with these proposed changes in the German economy went specific proposals for territorial changes. Königsberg and adjacent areas must go to Russia, as already agreed. Silesia and other eastern German regions, however, would not necessarily go to the Soviet-dominated government of the Poles, although now administered by Poland. The Saar would go to France. The Ruhr and the Rhineland, however, would remain German...
...unity, especially after Molotov delivered his July 10 stump speech at Paris. "Without the Ruhr and Rhineland Germany cannot live," the Reds said, and the cry was echoed by their German friends. "What are they shouting about?" said most Germans, "they have already had their pound of flesh from Silesia and East Prussia...