Ukrainian Demands On Germany

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 February 1947, Page 5

Ukrainian Demands On Germany

(Rec. 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 7. The Ukraine’s statement to the Foreign Minister’s deputies assesses the cost of the German occupation at more than £11,000,000,000, and demands repayment “to the greatest j possible extent” by the removal of j German industrial equipment, in-1 eluding equipment from the western occupation zones. The Ukrainian delegate, Mr. I. S. Senin, said the reparations so far received were “not worth mention- i ing.” The statement proposes that German industry should be liquidated except for the amount required to supply the basic necessities and export needs, and that this should be under four-power control. The first action to implement the proposed four-power conti ol should be taken in the Ruhr, says the statement. Germany should be a single democratic state, with self-governing states headed by a central govern- | ment to be elected by the people. | Complete denazification and demo- j cratisation must precede the creation of this state. The Allies must eradicate the social basis of German mi itarism—“Prussian junkerism .and the magnates of German monopolistic capital.” “Execution of Justice. Ukraine demands that any citiezns of Allied or associated powers who collaborated with Germany are stih in Germany should be returned to

their states “for the execution of justice. n | The deputies should recommend ,the dissolution of camps of refugees and displaced persons in Germany I and there should be a permanent direction forbidding the organisation I in Germany of groups of persons of Ukrainian origin directing activity against the Ukraine. Releases Unsatisfactory. The amount of German equipment which the Allied Control Commission has so far released for distribution as reparations is unsatisfactory, says the Secretary-General of the InterAllied Reparations Agency, Mr. Nigel Sutton, in his 1946 report. He adds that many Allied nations, especially those physically damaged in the war, urgently need industrial equipment. They are unable to get it from the normal channels because !of the world shortage. They must therefore rely on German reparations. . The Allied authorities in Germany * must sharply increase the rate of release of German assets if the repaiations timetable envisaged at Potsdam is not to be grossly exceeded. The report reveals that German assets distributed in 1946 were: (1), 686,000 tons of merchant shipping; (2) 75,000 machines from plants in the American zone; (3) machine tools worth £2,500,000, 80 per cent of which was taken from the British zone and the remainder from the French > zone.