PROBLEMS OF EUROPE

Grey River Argus, 18 September 1945, Page 5

PROBLEMS OF EUROPE

CLASHES OF INTERESTS Trials in Germany (Rec. 10.5) LONDON, Sept. 17 Mr. Justice Jackson, Chief Crimes prosecutor for the United States, stated at a Press conference in Nuremberg that war criminal trials would be formally opened in Berlin, where part of the proceedings would occur before the Court came to Nuremberg. He said that Americans d'id not see any need for the meeting in Berlin. He said the decision was made at the instance of one nation. The nation in question was not named, but it is taken to be Russia. BELSEN CAMP DIRECTORS’ TRIAL LONDON, September 16. A Reuter correspondent stated: On Monday Kramer, a Belsen camp director, and associates, will be accused of causing the deaths of a Britisher, Keith Mayer, and other named persons of Franco-Belgian, Dutch, Polish and Italo-Hungarian nationality. The trial will be held at Lundberg by a British military court. This is part of the first charge in the indictment against Kramer, Doctor Fritz Klein, and 46 other Belsen camp staffites. The charge also alleges ill-treatment of Anglo-Polish nationals, a Russian woman named Alexandra Siwodowa, and others. The second charge accuses Kramer, Klein, Peter Weingartner, and a group of women of being concerned in the death .of the Polish national, Rachella Silberstein, and others at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

Soviet Attack

ON ANGLO-FRENCH ATTITUDE

LONDON, Sept. 16 The “Daily Mail’ says the Kremlin spokesman, broadcasting .over the Moscow radio, denounced “the attempts by British and' French reactionaries to revive the idea of a Western European bloc under a new form masquerading as a Socialist Western bloc, directed against Russia and America.”

The number and frequency of acts of nocturnal lawlessness perpetrated by irresponsible Red Army elements are subjecting inter-Allied relations in Berlin to a gool deal of strain, says the “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent. Crime figures for Berlin for the period, May to August, show that out of 41 unsolved murder cases throughout the city, 25 suspects are members of the Red Army. Simultaneously, Russian political police or German agents appointed’ by them are secretly abducting Germans dwelling in the British and American districts and under British and American law protection. A British Military Court at Iserlohn sentenced to death an 18-year-old displaced Russian, a former prisoner, Nicolai Kowziga, for killing a British officer, Captain N. Dixon and a German woman after Captain Dixon had gone into the woods to investigate the woman’s complaints that Russians from a nearby dispiaccamp were causing a disturbance. Leon Blum, in a Paris Left newspaper “Popularie” urged the formation of a Western European family of nations as one necessary condition of peace. The group must be neither anti-Soviet politically nor anti-American economically. He and Labour comrades in Britain hoped for an intimate apprqaehment between France and Britain. French and Spanish republics and other democratic states in northern and western Europe would be attached to such a union because of pre-existing links between the peoples resulting from centuries of the common history and civilisation. The proposed pact did not represent an attempt to supplant the United Nations. British occupation authorities arrested waiter Siemens, former director of the north-west German coal cartel, the last of coal mine owners for whom warrants were issued. British soldiers raided displaced persons camp at Falhngbostel, wherein they found quantities ol daggers, knives, razors, pistols, bayonets and truncheons, and arrested 14J people.

Italy’s Rights YUGOSLAV DEMANDS LONDON, Sept. 16 Dr. iParri, Prime Minister of Italy, interviewed by the Berne P a P® r > “Gornale del Mattino” said: ide “Morgan line,” dividing the British, American and Jugbslav zones in Venezia Giulia is not acceptable as the final solution of the boundary between Italy and Jugoslavia. The “Morgan line” is simply a military line and does not take into consideration either ethnical or economic necessities, and does not meet either Italian or Jugoslav requirements. Discussing colonies acquired by Italy before Fascism, Dr. Parri, said they were occupied with the consent of the interested Powers and never menaced anyone. Italian administration in it was certainly not inferior to that of any other Power.. He belived a democratic colonial policy would fully meet the rights of local populations, particularly the Araos, with whom Italy desired to resume and cultivate the traditional policy of friendship. The Foreign Minister,. Senor Degasperi, has left for London by air to state Italy’s policy regarding tne peace treaty before the Council ol the Big Five Foreign Ministers. Belgrade radio reports that the Yugoslav Foreign Minister, Subasic, who recently suffered a stroke, is unable to go to London. Vice-Premier Evard Kardelj is heading the Yugoslav delegation to the Foreign Ministers’ Council. The Trieste correspondent of tne “Daily Mail” says: There is a reign of terror going on in the lovely hinterland of Trieste. The Allied Area Commissioner in Gorizia ' Province. Lieutenant Colonel J. C. Smuts, announced that the Mayor of San Leonardo, near Cividale, who was appointed by the Allies was ambushed and killed. He added that the threat of the unknown is taking awa- v liberty of thought from the people and making them act against their will.