CHANCE TO QUIT?

Grey River Argus, 11 July 1945, Page 5

CHANCE TO QUIT?

UNITED NATIONS’ ORGANISATION U.S. SENATOR RAISES QUESTION. (Rec. 10.30). WASHINGTON, July 10. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has commenced hearings on the United Nations’ Charter. Mr Stettinius was the first witness. He read a six thousand word statement reviewing and explaining the provisions and purposes of he Charter. Senator Vandenburg commented that Mr Stettinius made a brilliant record at San Francisco, and deserved the nation’s grateful appreciation. Senator Vandenburg pointed out that the United States would be free to withdraw from the United Nations’ Organisation whenever she chose to do so. Senator Vandenburg was here replying to a member who contended that it would be impossible to quit the Organisation, once the treaty, is ratified. SENATE AND GERMANY. DISARMAMENT PROPOSALS. (Rec. 7.35). WASHINGTON, July 9. The Senate Military Committee, of which Senator Kilgore is Chairman, recently visited European battlefields. The Committee now has reported to Congress. It urges that constant watch should be kept on German disarmament for at least fifteen years, because, it says, “Germany is better prepared to implement a world conquest plot than it was in 1918.” The report urged the compilation of a complete anatysis of Germany’s industrial records. It also recommended that quarterly reports be made to Congress bv the Allied Control Council, and also annual reports, for at least fifteen years. Senator Kilgore declared: "Germany, in defeat, remains a potential threat to world peace. Her major resources would still be available unless they are tightly controlled. Germany still is potentially the world’s^third strongest industrial power, possessing a worldwide network of economic and political reserves and a tremendous recuperative nower.” The report said: It is a common misconception that the war was waged by Nazi fanatics, whereas it was fought by German industrialists and Jlinkers behind the Nazi front. MARSEILLES, July 9.

Collected from German concentration camps, 818 Euronean Jews embarked on the British steamshin “Ascapius” for Haifa. It was the first shipment of the kind arranged by S.H.A.E.F. and U.N.R.R.A. Several more may follow. The refugees’ ages ranged from 15 d'ays to 82 years. Some were first put into concentration camps three years ago, and had been successively at Dachau, Buchenwald and other notorious camps. LONDON, July 9.

Americans found 40 Dorniers-built planes of a type easily outpacing the Allies’ fastest fighters, states the Associated Press /correspondent at Munich. They have propellers, nose and tail, and tricycle landing gear. Test flights showed a cruising speed of 450 miles an hour at 25,000 feet. The top speed! was considerably higher. 1 The police rjaided a two-store?/ building on thq. outskirts of Rome used bv a group'? of Italian partisans as headquarters, l and' arrested 70, reports the Exchange Telegraph Agency correspondent ale Rome. The group had been carrying out their own arrests of person® suspected of collaborating or bla/ck-market activities, and inflicting their own punishment. One of the arrested jumped from a window and diied from the injuries. This led to thf? raid.