AIMS OF SPEECH DEFINED

Chronicle (Levin), 7 September 1946, Page 5

AIMS OF SPEECH DEFINED

Received Saturday, 1.15 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 6. Observers in Paris see that Mr. Byrnes 's speech will have an iimnediate bearing on the game of -big power politics, says Reuter's Paris correspondent. The short-term aims of tne speech are regarded as: — Firstly, to prepare the ground for thc economic fusion of the Anglo-American zones and leave the door open for Prance and Russia to cooperate for a Germany-wide economic unit. Secondly, to hold out to the Germans hope for a constructive futiire and check political consequences from a growing feeling of hopelessness and frustration. Thii'dly, to record the American view that Russia 's failure to ohserve the economic provisions of the Potsdam agreement necessitates an increased level for Germany 's industrial activity •to. ayoid economic collapse. . rThe- |6hg-term i'mportance of the speech is'yfche f act" 4hh,t , it- . clearly de- . Jjife^ ih'^hroad lines Avhat/ AmeriCa >helliey^s / should _|he the shape-- of %^ings '-in postwar Gerte^ny;; Byraes, hy taking. a stand' on the Potsdam Agreement, carries the conflict of views between the Big Powers right into the Soviet camp. Russia now finds hersell charged with major economic breaches of Potsdam which may prove fatal to the prospects for recovery not only oi Germany but also of the whole 01 Europe.