SUSPICIONS OF GERMANY

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26491, 4 August 1951, Page 7

SUSPICIONS OF GERMANY

GROWTH REPORTED AMONG ALLIES

(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 2. "The West German Federal Republic’s failure to live up to its commitments on steel scrap deliveries to Britain under toe British-German trade agreement is bringing to the surface Allied distaste, dismay, and apprehension over the uncompromising attitude of the Germans in this and ether dealings with the occupation Powers,” says a “New . York Times correspondent, Drew Middleton, in a dispatch from Frankfurt. “The German actions have had another and more serious effect. They have awakened in the minds of Allied officials, particularly the British and French, suspicions of Germany s reliability as an equal partner in an inte^*One d officiaFl’aid: T feel that all of us, in our desire to check the Russians and bring the Germans on to our side, have been too quick to overlook the lessons of 1914 and 1939, and for the Fl The h correspondent adds that the Allies are exacerbated by the conviction—which few Germans share—that in six years the occupation has given Germany a position the wildest German optimist could not have envisaged when hostilities ended.

Greyhound ’Sold for 4000gna.-The champion Sydney g T Farrago, has been sold for 4000 Suineas—believed to be a world record. The highest previous recorded price for an Australian greyhound was 500 guineas. Farrago, who won his last seven starts, will be retired to the stud.—Sydney, August 1