BREAK UP GERMANY

Grey River Argus, 12 January 1944, Page 5

BREAK UP GERMANY

To Avert Future Wars U.S.A. DIPLOMAT'S PRESCRIPTION.

(Rec. 12.0) NEW YORK, Jan. 11. Mr James Gerard, formerly the United States Ambassador to Germany, said: Fifty years’ study. of the Germans has convinced me that the Allies, in the post-war reorganisation, should begin with the hanging of ten thousand of the guiltiest Prussians responsible for Nazi crimes. The wholesale extermination of the high-ranking Junkers will be only a temporary remedy. The German people are a hopeless problem. They must be constantly watched, or they will follow new leaders into another war. I feel that this time Allies will not weaken, or listen to blandishments as such men as Dr Schacht, who will say that millions of decent Germans were terrorised and led into war by cruel Nazies. Germany must be broken into independent States, not temporarily, but permanently.