ADMINISTRATION OF GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 25634, 7 November 1945, Page 5

ADMINISTRATION OF GERMANY

ESTABLISHMENT OF CENTRAL DEPARTMENTS FRAME'S POSITION RECOGNISED LONDON, November 6. It is officially stated in London that no decision has been taken in Berlin or elsewhere by which Britain, America, and Russia would proceed with, the establishment of a Central German Administration against 'the wishes of France, says he diplomatic correspondent of ' The Times.' The Eosition in essentials remains as it has een. The (British view, which the Russians and Americans bnare is that the Potsdam decision to establish central German departments tor finance, transport, communications, foreign trade, and industry should be implemented if it was felt that only thus can Germany be satisfactorily administered during the occupation, and the Germans so trained that when the occupation ends the Allies vill not leave chaos behind. This view Joes not exclude sympathy for the view put I forward by the French who, with watchfulness prompted by three invasions from across the Rhine, are disinclined to bless any development that might seem to lay the foundatijns for j a fourth lleich. .