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Spectator said in commenting on General Eisenhower's report. "The political philosophy of Russia is fundamentally different from that of the Western Powers. Two countries with opposite political principles may compromise about strategy or frontiers or trade; but in dealing with the same human subject matter there can be no compromise between totalitarianism and democracy.  Part of Germany may be handled in the totalitarian way, part in the democratic way, but the same section of it cannot be handled in both ways. Here is a fundamental difficulty in the re-education of a single Germany under the four powers-the same difficulty which stands in the way of the reconstruction of Europe by any other method than the demarcation of spheres of influence."
     Commenting on the statement in General Eisenhower's report that in political organization, the Communists and Social Democrats have been the most active, the London Economist said that it may be questioned "whether the Americans have admitted sufficient Social Democrats and Communists to the civil administration to reflect their real strength."
   "And since there is legitimate doubt on this point, General Eisenhower's criticism of the Russian practice in Berlin -- where Marshal Zhukov has given the Communists a decisive say in civil administration -- is much too categorical," the Economist continued. "The truth is that each administration has so far favored the Germans held to be most docile to its instructions and each is open to the criticism of preferring docility to genuine political representation."

Moscow Report
   Contrasts between the political and economic situation in the Soviet Union
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and that in western countries featured Soviet home broadcasts during the week. "All unemployment is liquidated in the USSR, this dreadful plague of workers in capitalist countries," declared one commentator. Another typical broadcast said, "There can be no doubt that, during the peace period, the advantages of a Soviet form of government will be revealed with a new force."
   Soviet foreign broadcasts continued to criticize suggestions looking toward the formation of a "western bloc", and stressed the fact that the Soviet Union represents "economically and politically a country in which the principles of democracy have triumphed." soviet broadcasters also voiced opposition to any delay in the trials of the Nazi war criminals. Said the Red Star International Review: "World pubic opinion is impatiently waiting for the beginning of the trial of the major war criminals.."

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   "only a few months have elapsed since V-E Day. That is insufficient time in which to overthrow the entire philosophy of a people never previously noted for rapid reversal of opinion. Obviously the whole matter demands clarification before any change is made in either denazification or redeployment policies. In re-educating Germany we are still on an experimental basis."
Editorial in The Boston Herald.

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   "There is a decided belief among those on the spot, who should know by careful observation, that joint control of Berlin is at the very least teaching Allied officials how to get along with one another. And while this is perhaps not of the utmost importance in the city of Berlin, it is of great significance when the lessons learned there are applied to the bigger problem of all Germany which
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