OCCUPATION OF GERMANY
PROPOSAL TO END PARTITION LONDON, March 1. The Bonn 'correspondent of “The Times” says that the American High Commissioner in Germany (Mr John McCloy) yesterday made a new offer to Russia to end the five-year partition -of .Germany. On behalf of the United States. Government, he again proposed that all-German elections should be held, with the important provision that they be free and democratic? as the West understands those terms. Elections in the Eastern zone, Mr McCloy said, ,were to take place in October and "were proclaimed as affording an opportunity of expressing the people’s will. But only one kind of freedom would be permitted in those elections—freedom to vote for a single list of candidates selected in advance. In contrast, the people of Western Germany-enjoyed the political freedoms so conspicuously absent in the East, namely, the right to engage in party activities and the 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 compete for the electorate’s favour*
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 117, 2 March 1950, Page 5
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187OCCUPATION OF GERMANY Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 117, 2 March 1950, Page 5
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