FUTURE OF GERMANY

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1946, Page 8

FUTURE OF GERMANY

AGREEMENT ON INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH FOUR CONTROLLING POWERS NEW YORK, March .19. _ Britain, America, Russia, and Prance have agreed upon Germany’s future industrial strength, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune. Details will be announced soon. The year 1949 is the goal set for the complete elimination of Germany’s war industries and for a full return to world trade with the goods she will be allowed to produce. Germany by 1949 will, it is believed, be allowed to import a maximum of 450,000,000 dollars’ worth of food a year to supplement her .own crops, providing the Germans with a daily diet of approximately 2190 calories. However, if there is still a world food scarcity non-enemy nations will, bo given purchasing preference.

“The Government has opened a camp in Buckinghamshire for training future administrators of Germany,” says the Daily Mail. “Three hundred hand-picked German prisoners of war every six weeks are brought in for an intensive course of re-education before returning to Germany to obtain in some cases important jobs with the Control Commission. i

“Camp lectures illustrate differences between British and German law, the British education system as compared with the German, how freedom works, an explanation of our relations with Ireland, India and Ihe Dominions, and the mistakes of Nazi Germany. The prisoners run their own newspapers, which will not be censored.

“A Foreign Office official said: ‘lt is one of the most important experiments We have ever tried, and it has succeeded brilliantly.’ ”