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...position on the eve of the conference was approximately as follows: i) the Russians must give a clear guarantee of the West's rights in Germany; 2) the Russians must accept West Germany's democratic constitution as the basis for any all-German regime; 3) any political setup for Russia's Eastern Germany must be the result of free, Four-Power supervised elections; 4) the U.S. will not now agree to the withdrawal of occupation troops from Germany (although talk persisted that the U.S. might consider moving its troops to port cities and the French frontier...
...setup is based on having two drives a year aimed at roughly $5 per person, instead of the former single drive aimed at $10. This is expected to glean more money...
Russia, thought the best guessers, has two ways in which it can seek its end. The first is to press for a four-power control setup with a Russian veto over German affairs (including the Ruhr). The second, and far more effective way, is to win German sympathies and establish conditions favorable to Communism. The Russians can warble a Lorelei song to woo German nationalism, as they have consistently done since war's end, by passing themselves off as champions of German unity...
More cautious opinion held that the Russians had merely lost the round in Berlin. There seemed little doubt that they would fight, in the impending Foreign Ministers' conference, for an all-German setup in which Russia would have some sort of veto. But the U.S. was ready for that (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and Europe knew it. The Communists had no cause for vernal jubilation...
...complete reorganization of the Album setup seems to be the only way out of the quagmire. It should not be a completely "senior" book--it would have much more interest if it were angled to a year, not a class. Some copies might even be sold to undergraduates, especially freshmen, and the traditionally harassed business manager could probably squeeze out some more advertising if there was a chance that the readership would stay in Cambridge for another year or more...