NEW GERMAN SONG

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1945, Page 5

NEW GERMAN SONG

"Berlin Wil! Rise Again" Rec. 12.50 p.m. LONDON, June 10.

"Berlin will rise again—that is the theme of a haunting: new song which Reuters Berlin correspondent heard Brigitte Mira, a German variety star, sing at a revived German night club when he toured the city. "Brigitte sang of better times to come," says the correspondent, "and that what had happened could not be helped. The song has the approval of the Red Army authorities. Russian officers at the cabaret took up the refrain." The correspondent added that the Red Army's policy of collaboration with a modicum of selfgovernment already appears to be bringing dividends in the wellordered population, which, considering the circumstances, is fairly contented.

Nevertheless, news agency representatives in Berlin agree that the city is ticking over—but only just.

however," he said. "Our soldiers have seen terrible things in. the countries where your leaders waged the war. You may think you were not responsible for these things, but these leaders arose from the German people, and the nation is responsible for its leaders. You were jubilant and laughed when your leaders were successful. That is why our soldiers are unfriendly to you. "It is our aim to destroy -the evil of the National Socialist system. It is too early yet to be certain that we have attained that aim."

He concluded by instructing the Germans to read his message to their children, and, if they were old enough, "to see that they understand it."

A proclamation by Marshal Zhukov which was broadcast over Berlin radio granted two liberties which have been withheld since 1933, says the British United Press. First, all anti-Fascist political parties are permitted;, and, secondly, workers are to have' the right to organise free trade unions and carry on collective bargaining with their employers.

After tracing events since the occupation of Berlin by the Russians to the signing of the four Powers' declaration, the proclamation adds: "From the moment of the occupation of Berlin by the Russians onwards, very strict order has been maintained and selfadministration organs established. Thus the conditions for free social and political activities of the German population have been created."

. Anti-Fascist organisations and trade unions must publish programmes of their activities and submit lists of their officials.