GERMANS PROPOSE CONVERSION OF STEEL PLANT
(10.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 23. The British High Commission in Germany promised today to give full consideration to a German plan '’ow being drafted to convert the former Hermann Goering steel works to peaceful industries.
The High Commission, in a press statement, said that the demolitions at the plant at Watenstedt Salzgitter had been temporarily postponed. The demolitions were the cause of angry German demonstrations earlier in the month and British troops were called in to restore order.
At Hanover today, the British Occupation Court acquitted Robert Lehmann, a Communist Deputy of the Lower Saxony Parliament, on charges of having the position of the occupation Power.” Lehmann, who was recently arrested by British and German police in Lower Saxony State, published leaflets attacking the dismantling at the Herman Goering works.
The judge said it had been, made clear that Lehmann was not in the publishing office when the anti-dis-mantling leaflets were printed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23211, 24 March 1950, Page 5
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