SOVIET SWAY OVER GERMANY

Chronicle (Levin), 12 June 1948, Page 5

SOVIET SWAY OVER GERMANY

Growing French Demand For Assurances From U.S. Reeeived Friday, 7 p.m. LONDON, June 11. There is little doubt but that de Gaulle's fiery attack 011 the six-Povver reeommendations on Germany, especially his denunciation o±' the pfesent Freneh regime, contributed largely to the lasfcminute eompromise on the question of subsidies for Ohurch sclioobs, thus averting the threatened Cabinet erisis on that issne, says tlie Times' Paris correspondent. It had the unexpected effeet of impelling the Government parties to eompose their differences on the clericsl question and a similar solidarity 011 the German question ean now be assumed when the Assembly debates the six-Power proposals this afternoon. Nevertheless the visible and invisible eft'ects of de Gaulle's intervention eannot l)e underestimated. His fears about Germany and the threat of war in Europe echo the thoughts of every thinking Frenelnnan. The Government, therefore, may get the support of a majority of the Assembly for the six-Power reeommendations, but it will prol)ably be a provisional and qualified support contingent on new negotiations on the basis of Freneh security requirements, The Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent points out that de Gaulle and many other Frenehmen have less fear of Germany itself than of the prospect of a 'Russian-eontrolled Germany. Many believe that to be inevitable, which' explains the growing demand that France should obtain assurances from Washington that the United States wouhl take diplomatic or even military action on the day that an Eastern German Reich started to extend its sway over W estern G ermany.