§ 12. Mr. Platts-Millsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what protests have been made in the Control Council for Germany to support the complaint that well-known ex-Nazis are being recruited into the National Democratic Party in the Soviet zone of Germany in breach of the Potsdam Agreement; and with what results.
§ Mr. MayhewThe Control Council for Germany has not met since 20th March, 1171 when Marshal Sokolovsky walked out of the meeting. At a meeting of the deputy-commandants in Berlin on 28th April, the British representative pointed out to his Soviet colleague that the "National Zeitung," which has now become the organ of the National Democratic Party, had publicly stated that the purposes of this new party were to provide a means of political expression for former members of the Nazi Party. To rectify this violation of Control Council Law No. 2 and the purposes of the Allied Occupation of Germany, the British representative proposed that a Four-Power Commission should be set up to investigate the activities of the "National Zeitung." The Soviet representative refused to accept this proposal, and on 16th June the National Democratic Party was licensed by the Soviet military authorities.