All the while they have been aware that. in an important sense. they are the only voice of those who could not flee to the West at the end of the war. The West Germans who settled in the freedom of the West did not abandon those they left behind. They formed vigorous refugee organizations which have been a constant source of embarrassment to the Soviet occupiers of East Germany. It would be a terrible shame if. in order to produce an illusion of amity with the Soviet Union. the West German Government ignores these organizations. or seeks to undermine their stature. There can be little doubt that the Soviet Union would like this.