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ENDING PARTITION OF GERMANY

NEW AMERICAN OFFER TO RUSSIA LONDON, March 1. The American High Commissioner, Mr John McCloy, yesterday made a new offer to Russia to end the fiveyear partition of Germany, when on ', behalf 'of the United States Government he again proposed that all-Ger-man elections should be held, with the important provision that (hey be free and democratic as the West understands those terms, reports the Bonn correspondent of “The Times.” The elections in the Eastern zone, Mr McCloy said, were due to take place in October, and were proclaimed as affording an opportunity of expressing the people’s will. But only the one kind of freedom would be permitted in those flections —freedom to vote for a single list of candidates selected in advance. In contrast, the people of Wetsern Germany enjoyed the political freedoms so conspicuously absent in the East, namely, the right right to vote for any candidate. Unity and freedom, he added, could be attained in Germany only if all parties throughout Germany were allowed full and equal opportunity to propose candidates, advance programmes and edmpete. fpr the favour of the electors.

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 117, 2 March 1950, Page 5

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ENDING PARTITION OF GERMANY Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 117, 2 March 1950, Page 5

ENDING PARTITION OF GERMANY Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 117, 2 March 1950, Page 5

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