information on this subject, if the Western Powers are
prepared to proceed to the settlement of the reparations
problem in deeds and not in words. As to the other Allied
stales to which reparations from Germany's Western zones
are due, it is an open secret that Anglo-American and
French policy has reduced the provisions of the Potsdaai
agreement practically to naught as far as those countries
are concerned.
Thus the American plan for Germany utterly disregards
the interests of other states which participated in the
anti-Hitler coalition. It is aimed at abolishing the Pots-
dam agreement, which conforms to the interests of peace
and the security of the nations of Europe. The present
American plan is a reflection of the interests' of definite
American circles, and the western part of Germany is in
this case, merely an object which is being exploited in the
interest of American expansion.
After this, it is clear why the U.S.A., which is engaged
at present in carrying out its plan in Europe, shows no
interest either in the preparation of a peace/ treaty with
Germany or in the re-establishment of Germany's unity.
By maintaining for as- long as possible the present un-
settled position, in which the state of war with Germany
has not yet been terminated, it is possible without scruple
to prescribe to, the Germans any medicine for the German
economy, to impose upon the Germans any obligations in
payment for the so-called "aid." Both the peace treaty and
the re-establishment of Germany's unity call for the for-
mation of a German government. But it is easy to see that
the formation of a democratic German government would
compel the payment of greater heed tol the interests of
the German people, which apparently does not come with-
in the present plan of so-called "aid." The longer such
a government does not exist, the "freer," as the saying
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