Thursday, October 19, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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KU dean appraises West Berlin's progress
Anti-American feeling is less in West Germany than in any other part of Europe. Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, said.
Coan, one of nine men invited by the West German government for a two-week fact-finding tour of Germany, said this pro-U.S. feeling is the result of the tremendous effect the Marshall Plan has had on the West German economy.
Coan was selected by the West German government to represent a university official. All the men were from different walks of life—big business, law, government—so different viewpoints would be represented.
The main purpose of the trip, Coan said, was for the nine men to appraise the progress of the Federal Republic of Germany under the Marshall Plan since World War II.
Progress 'astounding'
Coan said the progress since World War II has been "astounding," especially because some cities, such as Berlin, were 80 per cent destroyed.
Although the Marshall Plan was helpful, he said, the progress couldn't have been made without the desire and hard work of the German government and people.
Most of the major industrial areas such as Stuttgart, Munich, Frankfurt, and Berlin have been rebuilt, Coan said. New buildings replace the previous blocks of bombed-out buildings.
The division of Germany is "unfortunate." Coan said, and the Berlin wall is "atrocious." The Fast German Democratic Republic, which is neither democratic
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nor a republic, Coan added, has freely admitted that the purpose of the wall is to keep the people from leaving the country. Over three million people left East Germany for the West before the wall was constructed.
East Germany isolated
The East German government has a Stalinistic variety of Communism. Coan believes the country is more autocratic than many Communist countries for two reasons. First, Chairman Walter Ulbricht's philosophy is more autocratic, and second, the peculiar division of the country forces the East German government to adopt this philosophy in order to keep the country in line. East Germany, he said, has a very limited contact with other countries, both politically and economically.
Coan said he had heard that West Berlin was a dying city, but he found the spirit excellent. There has been some difficulty, however, getting people to build homes and businesses close to the wall.
U. S. troops are very important
to West Berlin for psychological reasons, Coan explained. Although there aren't enough to be
effective in case of a communist attack, they show the people that the U.S. won't let them down.
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