m a n y , b e feels sure it will not employ Nazi symbols, or claim a n y connection with their history, slogans, or goals. • Soviet Zone. T h e second p r e requisite for understanding o u r newally, says Conant, is t o realize what is h a p p e n i n g in the Soviet zone. While some 50 million Germans a r e enjoying freedom, another 17 million are suffering u n d e r t h e slavery of an imposed Communistic system. In theory t h e government i n the Soviet zone is based on a n elected assembly, a n d there a r e parties with o t h e r labels. Actually, all political activity is b u t a p u p p e t show with the coiu Is in Soviet hands; there is neither Freedom of assembly, of speech, nor o f t h e press. If there were free elections in t h e zone,, there is little doubt, says Conant, that trhe Communistic regime would b e repudiated b y an overwhelming vote. The spontaneous uprising J u n e 17 three years a g o could b e p u t down only by thie Soviets' bringing in troops a n d tanks. "The spirit of freedom which was symbolized b y those young m e n who threw stones at t h e Soviet tanks Left to right: J. C . Warner, ACS President; Ralph A. Connor, Chairman of t h e still h u m s strongly, n o t only in East Board of ACS; James B . Conant, recipient of Parsons A w a r d ; E . H . Volwiler, Berlin b u t throughout the zone." In the Soviet zone schools a n d u n i Abbott L a b s , and former ACS President, later Chairman of t h e Board; Robert R. Williams, ACS President-Elect; a n d Alden H . Emery, ACS Executive Secretary versities have been remodeled to fit the Cornrnundst pattern. All publications must conform to the official line. Industries have been nationalized a n d agriculture h a s been reshaped in line with Communist ideology. Now 85r/
