GRIM PICTURE OF EUROPE SPEEDS U.S. TRAINING BILL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22582, 10 March 1948, Page 5

GRIM PICTURE OF EUROPE SPEEDS U.S. TRAINING BILL

(N.Z P.A.—Copyright.) (10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK?, March 9. The American military authorities in Germany have abandoned their belief t-hat the world is relatively safe from war for at least 10 years.

The Secretary of Defence. Mr. James Forrestal, and his three sub-Cabinel Secretaries for the Army, Navy and Air, told this to a closed meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee, reports the United Press correspondent in Washington.

sador, M. Josef Olszewski at his home in Southern Bohemia. Dr. Bones said: "In any new international conflict, our freedom prosperity and the whole national existence would agam be at stake. Let us - be jointly well prepared." The Soviet Government, in a Note to the British Government, said the London conference on Germany "played into the hands of every sort o£ war instigator." It could not have legal force and international authority, the Note added.

They are reported to have painted a grim picture of heightened pressure in Europe and a navy man is said to have cited disturbing figures on Russian submarine strength. Their testimony spurred the committee to call immediate open hearings on the Universal Military Training Bill.

The policy of Britain, United States and France undermined the four-Power agreement of the Control Council for Germany and the Council of Foreign Ministers.

The Czecnoslovak President, Dr. E. Benes received the new Polish Ambas-