ANNEXATION PLANS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 7

ANNEXATION PLANS

What Germans Intended Rec. 12.30 p.m. BERLIN, Sept. 4. American army investigators have discovered conclusive evidence that Germany intended to annex France, Belgium, Holland, and Luxemburg in the form of an original draft order to field commanders dated May 9, 1940, and signed by Hitler. The order warned the commanders that they must carry out the functions of the military government in such fashion as would not reveal the contemplated annexation of occupied territories.

with the diplomatic world must have noted that even in democracies there were in some quarters approving indications of the desirability of some form of control of the Press and of broadcasting." He added that it was an unhappy but inescapable fact that difficulties of access to facts and disclosure and distribution to the world of information which affected the future of millions of people were still being maintained in many quarters. There was imperative need for the general adoption of the first of the Four Freedoms, and in that he included broadcasting, which should enjoy the utmost liberty in the dissemination of news. Honesty in news had never stood at a higher premium, and in that respect the newspapers of Britain, and the 8.8.C., had not failed. Some amusing memories are retained by a postal censor who has examined letters for five years. "Every facet of human nature was revealed to me," he said. "The work, of course, had its lighter side, and many a laugh has been had at weird constructions of sentences. One of my favourites is 'Jane Jones has had a baby, and her husband has been made a captain and decorated for gallantry.' 'Father is in bed with an abbess on his chest' may amuse you as much as it did me, or, if your humour likes a Rabelaisian touch, the following is a gem: 'Mother was ultraviolated twice in hospital last week. The doctor was such a nice young man.' "