CENTRAL REGIME FOR GERMANY
SPEECH BY MR BYRNES CRITICISED
MR SUMNER WELLES’S VIEWS
(Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 15. The former Under-Secretary of State (Mr Sumner Welles), in a broadcast, criticised the speech made at Stuttgart by the Secretary of State (Mr James Byrnes). He claimed that the United States, with Britain’s support, was feverishly attempting to gain the Ger-
man people’s goodwill to offset Russia’s increasing influence over the German masses. Mr Welles said that the formation of a German Central Government implied grave dangers to world peace and to American national safety. The hurried establishment of a politically united Germany under a central authority would lack the indispensable foundation for any real federation and union —the German people’s will. The only way to create a real United States of Germany would be by an Allied agreement to restate to the German States the independence they had before 1870.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24982, 17 September 1946, Page 7
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