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crat himself. After the Armistice, he returned to his
home town, Hamburg, gave up his American
citizenship, and became a German citizen again. He wanted
to identify himself completely with the cause of the
new Germany. His loyalty to his country has
impressed the British authorities, with whom he is .on the
best of terms. He is considered to have the
qualifications to play an important rôle in the Germany of
tomorrow.
When I met him, it was especially the Conference
of Foreign Ministers in London concerning the
solution of German problems which occupied his mind.
Upon the result of this conference, he said, depended
the fate of Germany and perhaps of all Europe for
the near future. The situation in Germany was so
difficult that the conference simply had to reach a
decision. He even said that he would rather see
Germany cut into two parts, an eastern and a western,
than that nothing should happen.
Then Brauer brought up the question of monetary
reform, the question which, since then, in June 1948,
was solved in such a way as to cause not only a
German but also an international crisis, the most
serious since the Armistice in 1945. What he told
me this time gave me an interesting picture of
conditions prior to this reform. Brauer declared that a
revaluation of the German mark was absolutely
necessary. At the moment there was no control
whatever over the amount of banknotes printed by the
various occupation authorities. If the printing-presses
were allowed to keep on working at the same tempo
as they had hitherto, he said, the German people
would very soon be in the same situation as after
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