NEW SET-UP PLANNED
GERMAN ZONAL COUNCIL BRITISH INTENTIONS HAMBURG, April 30. Lieut.-General Sir Brian Robertson, deputy British Military Governor, in announcing the reorganisation of the German Zonal Advisory Council, said the Military Government would appoint 30 members whom the States would propose. The council would remain an advisory body and have neither legislative nor executive powers. General Robertson appealed to the German political leaders to' elect a woman to the new council because women were “seriously under-repre-sented in German public life,” He added that the course of the discussion at the Moscow conference would be used as a guide in deciding the composition of the future council. "I believe that we may henceforth work on the assumption that neither will there be a highly centralised Government in Germany, as under Hitler, nor will Germany be so split up as to render it impossible for her to preserve that measure of political, economic and financial unity which is essential to her future happiness.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 2 May 1947, Page 5
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