ALLIED POLICY ATTACKED

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 9

ALLIED POLICY ATTACKED

Speech By Germany’s Opposition Leader

BERLIN, August 29. Dr. Kurt Schumacher, the Opposition leader in West Germany to-night attacked the Allies as executors of a ••ruthless policy of victory,’’ and the West German Chancellor (Dr. Konrad Adenauer) and his Government at passive and negative. In a speech over the Munich radio, Dr. Schumacher said that Dr. Adenauer’s claims that his policy towards the Allies had been successful were completely irresponsible. Dr. Schumacher said that Dr. Adenauer's policy only delayed the overdue overhaul of the Allied policy towards Germany, which at present was the biggest obstacle to the construction of a viable Europe. He referred to the "stubborn attitude” of the Allies in insisting on a German guarantee for the export of scrap ana the confiscation of German foreign bonds and foreign property. The result of Dr. Adenauer's economic policy, he claimed, was that “we have a Germany of bursting shop windows and empty stomachs.” He added: “If the Federal Government declares each of the failures of its foreign policy to be a success, the Allies will think they can do anything they like with it.” He warned the Western Allies that a new German army was prepared to fight only if it had a good chance of being on the winning side. “Germans can take no part in the military contribution to European defence unless they know its purpose, who controls it decisively—and what chances there are of success for Germany.” he said.