RULE OF GERMANY

Grey River Argus, 19 September 1944, Page 4

RULE OF GERMANY

ALLIES TO BAR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT (Rec. 9.0) NEW YORK, Sept. 18 The Washington correspondent of the New York “Herald-Tribune'' learns from the State ' Department that the Allies will neither recognise nor sponsor any German national Government for a substantial period after the collapse of Nazi resistance. On the contrary, under the reported arrangements between Britain, Russia and the United States, Germany will® be ruled at the top by a threemilitary commission, with city ana local Governments allowed to function only after a purge of Nazi overlords. The disclosures made combat reports that Mr. Robert, Murphy was bringing together an advisory . committee of democratic Germans in the United States to assist in the formation of a Reich Government under Allied sponsorship.