German Politicians Far Too Arrogant

Chronicle (Levin), 29 July 1949, Page 5

German Politicians Far Too Arrogant

! LONDON, .Tulv 27. _ ' "British uriti Aniericun uutliorities in Oermnnv urc roporteil us iucrpusinglY (listurl)Pil by ihe criticul aml resentful tono of spppchcs in thc (torman election campuign. rriiese have beon jCconipaniod by ovidiMico of a rovix al of the Na/.i and Xationalist fceling in various part of the Western Zone. . Oue movement whieh is being eloselv watched, is lieaded by Prinee Ilubertus Zu Loewenstein who, nsing the old nnperial Eagle as a synibo], has set up branehes of' a Cnited Germany Mo/ement in a numlier of districts including Silesia, East Prussia and Ponierania, which are all now separated from Germany. The blaek and red NaTii flag has reappeared... in various districts where former officers have delivered aggressive speeches. ■ These demonstrations are not confined 'to would-be leaders of Natioualist groups but to recogni.sed German politicians who so far have been recognised and given freedom of action by the occupvijig authorities. 1 When the Tlritish Foreign Secretary, Mr. F.rnest Bovin, recently said in a speech that he would not forget the

blitzed victims of Wandsworth, Dr. Kuri Adenauer, the German Cliristian Democrat leader, retor+ect: "We must remember that German eities also ha#e been reduced to rubble and ashes.' This comment waj made at the sanie time as the German Bocialist leader. Dr. Kurt Sehumacher, described the Allied oceupation as "arrogant gnardianship ' ' and said it must end. Extraets from some of the more inflammatory speeches have beon . eferred to London and Wasliington.