"Stooge" Party For Reds In Germany

Chronicle (Levin), 12 March 1948, Page 5

"Stooge" Party For Reds In Germany

I.OXDOX, Afai'cb 11. (foncral Sir Brinn Robertsou, BritisJ Military Oovenior in (fennany, vester day delivered the most outsspokcn de nunciation of thc ('ommunist-direetcd and Russian-sponsordtl Bocialist Pnity Party whicli has vet been made by r leader of the we.stern democracies. I was, he said, a "stooge" party and thv unity it was advocating was tlie unit of bondage. -(leneral Bobertsoii who, aec.ording lc the Times eorresponden't, spoke witl, deep feeling and indignation, said thv Coimmmist Party had been shown grea trderauce. It was a noisy party ! and in^view of its trueulenee and ex travagances it should account itsel. r'ortunate. in the trentment it had r.e ceived. The Boeialist Unity Party hnc not, General Robertson said, been pro hibited in the British zone. The .Gei'mai people in tlie British zone did not wun it. They regarded it as a fraud — as ' ' -i trick for enticing workers away from a ■jenuine Socialist conception into tlie t oi Is of Uommunism". The Socialist Unity Partyks idea of unity decoiv.ed nobody, General Robert son adcled. It was a stooge party and Ihe unity to which it invited its fol lowers was a unity in bondage. „ It: German chairmen and fellow con spiralors were .playing a very dangeron - piine and they wov-ld lind out how big heir mistake was when the iron cnrtaiiivhich shut olf Eastern Germany fron.r he west was-ljfted. "'Thev will then be brought to ae ■ount hy th.e people of Germany, for; '. lieir attempts to betrny democraey and to fasten on the, nocks of their fellpw -ount rynien a yoke of their own im oorPition. " y They1 would be asked^to. explain why they had denied Eastern Genuany' the trade benefits which wer being made available to the rest oi" Germahv under Ihe Alarshall Plan-