NEW ORDER DEAD

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 125, 23 November 1944, Page 6

NEW ORDER DEAD

GERMAN ADMISSION

DEFEATIST UTTERANCES (By Tcieoraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 11.30 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 22. A Wilhelmstrasse spokesman made the noteworthy statement that Germany "with regret had said farewell! to Hitler's plan for a New Order in j Europe under German hegemony," be- j cause it was no longer practicable in the present circumstances, says the Stockholm correspondent of "The I Times." This, and statements from other Wil- i helmstrasse spokesmen, explain that all that Germany lfcped regarding a European economic coalescence and general i unification lies buried under a mountain of suspicion and hostility. It was : asserted that if Germany's ideas for i Europe were to be realised "deeper ploughing will be required than was achieved in this war." The spokesmen assert that much depends on the position which resurgent France occupies after the war and Mr. Churchill's plans for a western bloc. Such talk in high places clearly implies that German leaders expect defeat, and makes incongruous the new anti-defeatism campaign by the chairman of the People's Court, Dr. Freisler. CONDUCT IN NORWAY. The Germans themselves declare that the military situation in northern Norway has reached a stage where no consideration can be given to the civilian population, according to a Norwegian who has just arrived from Finmark, says "The Times" correspondent. The Norwegian said: "The Germans are driving the people southwest, burning houses and shooting cattle. Fmmark, which normally contained 55,000 people, is lifeless and empty except for those hiding in the mines at Kirkenes. "The Norwegians fear that a similar fate awaits the whole area from Tromso to Narvik, where 250,000 people are living. Norway is facing the greatest catastrophe in her history and the gravest devastation. The Germans have also stopped the fisheries, which are the mainstay of the country's wartime and peacetime food supply."