A-Pact Foes Seen
Fearing a Detente
Washln¢ton Pas F¢ceien Service
BONN, Feb. 27—Der Spiegel tion treaty now being negotisaid today that the leading ated at Geneva to appear
in
German opponents of a treaty
to ban the spread of nuclear print.
weapons were less disturbed Press Suspicious.
by the treaty's contents than For nearly a month, nearly
by the prospect of Soviet- all German press commentary
American understanding.
has been more or less suspiThe Hamburg newsmaga- cious of the treaty, with the
zine identified the chief foes Springer newspapers leading
of a treaty as Finance Minis- a vociferous campaign of opter Franz—Josef Strauss, for- position.
mer Chancellor Konrad Aden- Spiegel publisher Augsteln
auer, publishing magnate Axel today, an the other hand,
Springer, Defense Minister wrote that the treaty "does
Gerhard Schroeder, and Wil- not express any special Gerhelm Grewe, Bonn's Ambassa- man interest, to be sure, but
dor to the North Atlantic nevertheless does express
a
Treaty Organization.
common interest. It secures
"To the treaty's opponents, the framework for a later
led by Adenauer, Strauss and agreement with France and
Springer," Spiegel charged, China, which is not now in
"the actual content of a treaty sight but is nevertheless possiis less dangerous than the ble and necessary."
basic understanding expressed The newsmagazine also
in it: An alliance between the charged that an article In
two atomic giants, the U.S.A. Springer's Die Welt, which acand the Soviet Union, the cused the United States of
nightmare of all German cold breaking the North Atlantic
warrlours since the founding Treaty, was written by "an anof the (West German) Federal onymous member" of the
Republic."
Foreign Ministry planning
The Spiegel article was the staff.
first lengthy, pro - and - con Adenauer Comments
treatment of the nonproliferaAdenauer was quoted as
saying, "I find the whole
thing monstrous. It is the
Morgenthau Plan on a bigger
scale."
This was a reference to the
'proposal drawn up in 1944 by
Henry T. Morgenthau Jr., then
the U.S. Secretary of the
Treasury. The plan called for
the removal of Germany's industry to make it an essentially agricultural country after
World War IL
Der Spiegel described the
treaty's foes as largely motivated by the same "underdog
complex" expressed by Prince
Buelow, Imperial Chancellor
under Kaiser Wilhelm II,
when he justified German occupation of Tsingtao in China
in 1897 with the words: "We
wish to place no one in the
shadow, but we demand our
place in the sun."