CRY OF ALARM HEARD IN GERMANY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 38, 14 February 1945, Page 5

CRY OF ALARM HEARD IN GERMANY

TO DESTROY REICH

Wrath Rises Against "Yalta

Hate Plan"

N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 10 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 13. The German reaction to the publication of the Yalta Conference decisions is summed up in the German news agency statement: "The news of Yalta is passing through Germany like a cry of alarm." The news agency headlining the report, "Germany to be Destroyed," "Hate Plan of Yalta,"' says: "Never shall this murder plan become a reality. Our wrath shall rise to national frenzy. Ninety million Germans will cling to the soil of the Fatherland and smash the most fiendish plan of all time by force of arms. The destructive madness of Germany's enemies has now taken on final shape." The news agency says that the plan aims straight at the German people. Germany is to be beaten by brute force and then cut in pieces. All German industry is to be carried off and "courts are to be established to organise the mass murder of German men, women and children." The first German comment on the statement from the Crimea Conference came from the Zeesen radio, in an English broadcast which stated: "The language used in reference to Germany appears to be below that applied to uncivilised tribes. The Bolshevist and British and American plutocrats aim at Germany's complete destruction. To this, the German answer cannot be anything but to fight." The German news agency has directed a tirade of abuse against the Allied agreement. It calls it a hate programme, describes it as the greatest political crime of all time, and adds: "This super-Versailles surpasses the old Versailles by 100 per cent." The immediate reactions of the British 1 4 to the Crimea Conference are entirely favourable. The Times, after saying it is a great event in history, states that the circumstances of the proceedings invested the meeting with an immediate authority over the whole future of Europe which has not been equalled on any previous occasion when the Allied leaders have come together. Two practical agreements of high importance are, first, the institution of periodic meetings of Foreign Secretaries and, second, a settlement over the method of voting, one important difference that remained over from the Dumbarton Conference.