SWASTIKAS AGAIN APPEAR

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14048, 1 May 1946, Page 3

SWASTIKAS AGAIN APPEAR

ELECTIONS IN GERMANY

CLASHES REPORTED London, April 29. Swastikas over the words, “For Greater Germany,” has replaced the Democratic Party posters in North Bavarian towns during the county council elections in the American zone, says a Frankfurt message, A Communist hall was set on fire at Abserstdore during a meeting. When a rumour swept a big camp for Jewish displaced persons at Landsberg, that Germans had seized and murdered several Jewish boys, the Jews broke ouj. of the camp and clashed with Germans who were voting in the county council elections " at Diessen, near Landsberg. The Jews stopped buses and stoned and beat the occupants and also used knives and fists. American troops separated the combatants. Six people were taken to hospital. The principles of, the Atlantic Charter went with the bitter winds of Yalta and Potsdam, said Sir William Beveridge in a speech in London.

He added that the victors’ attempt to squeeze 74,000,000 Germans into a space previously occupied by 67,000,000, the ruthless cuts in German steel and machine-tool output, and denial of German access on equal terms to the trade and raw materials of the world, were irreconcilable with the Atlantic Charter and untenkble except by lasting force applied inside Germany and from the outside.