GERMANY STILL DANGEROUS

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 232, 28 June 1945, Page 6

GERMANY STILL DANGEROUS

Need For Industrial Disarmament

AMERICAN OPINION (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —-Copyright.) (Received June 27, 7 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 26.

The air blitz was a major factor in the defeat of Germany, but it did not destroy the Reich’s industrial capacity to gear for a third world war, the Foreign Economic Administrator, Mr. Leo Crowley, told the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Germany, if left alone now, would be better prepared for another war in five years than she was in 1939.

The Allies, therefore, must be prepared for a long occupation of the Reich and must persue a programme of rigid economic and industrial disarmament, Mr. Crowley said. "If VE-day had come six months later the Reich would have been able to hit New York with bombs and send jet-propelled planes against Washington, he added. Senator Kilgore, who recently returned from Europe, said he was told by an outstanding military authority that German fighter planes were about to roll given them unquestioned control of the air on the western front had the Rhine defences held out for 90 days longer.

BRITISH MARCH TO BERLIN BEGUN Second Army On Way Home LONDON. June 26. With their new paint and varnish gleaming brilliantly, British tanks and vehicles today started off for Berlin to take up their occupation positions in the western end of the city, says the correspondent of the British United Press at Field-Marshal Montgomery's headquarters. It is expected that they will arrive in the capital at the weekend. Their victory march and the link-up with the United States forces in the south-western part of the city will give th e Russians and citizens of Berlin a picture of some of the finest units of Field-Marshal Montgomery's army, including the Grenadier Guards, Canadian units, and the famous Seventh Armoured Division. The British troops who will occupy Berlin are excited because they want to meet the cream of the Red Army. They are the envy of comrades who are being left behind. The British Second Army has been dissolved and is returning to England with a farewell message from Field-Marshal Montgomery “to those who gave their best that we might win the German war.”

COMMUNIST PROTEST IN COLOGNE LONDON, June 26. American military police fired shots over the heads of a German crowd which staged a demonstration in Cologne last month, reports the British United Press. Five thousand people gathered, ostensibly to welcome home Germans.released from concentration camps, but an Allied investigation revealed that the demonstration was actually a Communist protest against the Right-wing government which'the Allies had established.