CENTRAL STATE WANTED
NEW GERMAN PARTY’S CLAIM POSITION OF RHINE AND RUHR (Rec. 10 p.m.) BERLIN, May 1. “Germany cannot live without a centralised Government consisting of representatives of all four anti-Fascist Sarties and the trade unions. We want le Rhine and the Ruhr to remain German because we cannot exist without this important territory,” said the
former Communiat and joint leader of Germany’s new Socialist Unity Party (Wilhelm Pieck), addressing a May Day meeting. “We are demonstrating totor bread, peace, and liberty. *Tne unity of the working classes will give- strength for the reconstruction of our destroyed economy and allow the creation of a new democratic and peaceful Germany,” added Pieck. The other joint leader of the Socialist Unity Party (GrotewchD emphasised the party’s desire to attain its democratic aims peacefully. “If ever Germany’s new freedom must be defended by force, it won’t be our fault,” he said.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24865, 3 May 1946, Page 7
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