WAR IMPOSSIBLE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 205, 12 June 1945, Page 4

WAR IMPOSSIBLE

ALLIED AIM IN GERMANY.

THE DEVASTATION WROUGHT EISENHOWER’S WORDS. (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, June 11. “We want to get as much ‘killing stuff’ across to the Pacific as quickly as possible to finish off the Japanese,” said General Eisenhower, giving a press conference at the Dorchester Hotel, London. “I cannot hazard a guess just how long the Japanese war will last,” saifi General Eisenhower. Referring to the American policy of non-fraternisation the General said it no longer applied to very ydung children. He declared that neither the Americans nor the “Tommies” would ever cease being friendly to children, whatever their nationality.

“There are many Germans who want to be friendly now, but they should have wanted to be so before this. My experience has been that the Germans are arrogant in victory and very polite in defeat.” General Eisenhower said that the Germans hoped to return to what they called normality, which means that the nation would be able to compete with other highly-civilised and industrialised nations.

“The Germans will never get there if I have my way,” said the General. “Russia, Britain and America intend to make it impossible for Germany ever again to wage war. I thought when I saw the devastated areas of London, particularly around St. Paul’s, that you could not see people take worse, but no one has ever seen anything in this European war to compare with the German towns.”