SOVIET & SOVIET-ZONE BROADCASTS RELATING TO GERMANY, AUSTRIA, AND THE APPROACHING LONDON CONFERENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04864A000100040006-0
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 18, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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single theme in that context* All-German representation is especially stressed. There
are 'pleas for trade-union unity across zonal boundaries; protests against economic
union of the Saar with France; references to the Zeitz (Saxony) plebiscite which heavily
favors amity; quotations from Kuelz of the LDP and Kaiser of the CDU favoring an all-
German gorernmentl and an assertion that Senator Vandenberg favors the Roover proposal
tar a separate peace with a west-Seaman state, to be created after the London Conference
breaks down.
3? DEMILITARIZATIONB Blighted,
4. DENAZIFICATION; Slighted. except for the assertion that Ciayes anti-totalitarian
information polic,,v is welcomed by the 11many Nazis" in the western zones.
5 NCO ONTROL: Familiar statements are often repeated, such as: "American
capital is trying to dominate western Germany completely." and the Naehirgton agreement
marks..., the eviction of Great Britain from the Ruhr, that old stronghold of British
influence." Dismentlings are described as excessive,
6. REPARATIONS; Slighted,
7, ECO1TOMIC FAILURE-5 The "economic anarchy" in western Germany is referred to,
b. L43D RF2ORM AND SOCIALIZATION?
There are references, as often in the pest, to
the press conference of 14 August at which Clay is alleged to have anrounce" the abandan-
went of socialization as a "condition" of increased American help, It is also said
that, In the recent Anglo-American ,ragreemeut0 "one has completely forgotten the plan of
socialization of the Ruhr industry which the Labor Government expounded so vociferously,,"
9. AUSTRIA(2n eigh' monthey)i The pattern of broadcasts rith regard to
Austria, during the pest eight months, has been remarkably similar to the pattern with
reord to Germany,, For instance, as in the case of Germany, the following ideas are
stressed: the threat of American dollars to national independence; the Soviet desire
to promote rational independence; the "reactionary," pro-American stand of non.Communist
parties (Peoples Party and Socialists); coddling of Nazis and "A ustro-pfascists";
hunger in the western zones and productive efficiency in the Soviet zone; the need for
land reform; the need to repatriate displaced persons, As in the case of Germany,,, the
right of the Soviet Union to reparations ("Nazi assets" in this case) was asserted
during the oscow Conference, but has been neglected since then. The assertion of
Austrian war-guilt, made during'the Moscow Conference, has also been allowed to :lapse,
Two differences in Soviet prcpe;anda about Germany and Austria are: (a) in the
case of Austria there is no stress at all on the idea of national unity, In facto any
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suggestion *if unity as between. Germany and German-speaking Austria is branded a8
fagctst tc "}tines-German propaganda." (b) There-has been little etres4, as yet, on the
nthui Co-ferenee, The question of the Austrian peace treaty has been scarcely
mentioned, end there has been no monitored discussion of the withdrawal of troops-
to relation to Austrian independence,
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