BAVARIANS UNEASY

Evening Star, Issue 25770, 17 April 1946, Page 7

BAVARIANS UNEASY

REVIVAL OF NAZISM LONG OCCUPATION URGED (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 15. Bavarian newspapers are expressing sharp alarm at the recent evidence ol the growth of underground activity, reports the German News Agency after a survey of editorial comment on " negative governmental programmes.*' The German youth movement is alleged to be responsible. Typical comment is contained in the Garmisch provincial newspaper ' Hochlandbote,' which declared: "Unfortunately true National Socialistic thought is increasing in all possible forms. >Tho Nazis are using the lethargy of the broad masses for their plans." The ' Bayreuth Frankischer Tag ' asserted : " The peace inherent in the German character cannot be found by negative means. The Germans want to be inspired and to see positive goals, for which they can be enthusiastic. They are offered nothing to-day but a fisfht for National Socialism." "We have definite proof of the existence of subversive_ groups of Nazis planning to do away with all exponents of democracy," declared Dr Hoegner, Premier of the Provincial Government of Bavaria, addressing a group of leading American publishers and editors Dr Hoegner issued the warning that if American troops were withdrawn from Germany within the next six months, havoc and civil war would result in Bavaria. He expressed the view that the Allies should occupy Germany for 10 to 15 years if the country were to he reconstructed as a national unit.