RUSSIAN MOVE FOR EAST GERMAN STATE

Chronicle (Levin), 29 December 1947, Page 7

RUSSIAN MOVE FOR EAST GERMAN STATE

. LONDON, JDec. 27. Authoritative German sources di'sclosed tlnit the Russians are uioving severul important. members of the Ger' rimu Central Administration from Berlin to Leipzig, says the Daily Herald. Leipzig is ihe "niint" of the Russian z oue and ihe Geriuans regard the adininistralor.s ' transfer as a step toward Ihe fornnition of a " Government for Easteni Genna ny, ' ' and toward the printiiig of a new , curreney for" the Russian zone. Reuter's Munirh correspondent states that Dr. Rndolf Paul, former l'remier of Thuringia in the Russian zone oi Xfermany, arrived in Munich on Christnias Evo and will shortly leave for an undisrlused destination. l)r. Paul's arrival in Munich partl.v clears up a mysterv wliich has lasted since September wlien he disappeared from the Russian zone. Kpecinl guards on the frontier liad orders to stop Paul if he aftempted to cross into the Ameriean zone. He was reported on •September 13 to have erossed the t)order on foot but the Ameriean General Clay stated on the 18th tliat lie had no knowledge of Paul's whereabouts. He said he had left the Russian zone liecau.se he eould not longer watch with bound' hands the growing lie of democrai'y in the easteru zone of Germany. His decision to llee to the Ameriean zone came when Russian -controlfed newspapers stated that he was the leading opponent of the Marshall Plan aithough he had publicly supported the plan.