TO HELP EUROPE

Grey River Argus, 21 September 1945, Page 3

TO HELP EUROPE

U.S.A. HOME RATIONING WASHINGTON, Sept 18. President Truman announced that he might, re-establish some of the food controls abandoned since the Japanese surrender,, to help hungiy peoples abroad. This was dependent on U.N.R.R.A. getting 'the 1,900,000.OCO dollars which he had recommended to Congress and on Britain ana other countries obtaining satisfactory financial aid. President Truman recalled that on his return from Potsdam he had said that the United States would provide food and other supplies for the devastated areas to the limit of her strength. That pledge, made not only to the Allies but to the American people, must be kept. The United States was in a position to fulfil Europe’s main requests, with the exception of sugar, fats, and oils, till January 1, 1946. Shipments thereafter would depend on whether ci edits or other financial arrangements could be made to help European countries to buy American goods. PARIS, Sept. 18. Fifty arrests were made at Toulouse during the week-end after widespread looting of food shops. Housewives at Monte Pellier organised a mass demonstration outside food shops. Former deportees at Lyons formed teams to inspect food shops and restaurants to see that prices conformed to the official limits. NO GERMAN CIVIL SERVICE LONDON, Sept., 18. Doctor Walter Forn, adviser to the United States Military Government at Frankfurt, said: The German civil service has been wrecked. American authorities in the past few months smashed Prussian bureaucracy. This was a revolution comparable in historic importance with the Russian Many middle-class Germans felt the breaking up of the Junker estates. Americans had gone too far in the deNazification policy. The . German middle-class never had a political outlook and lacked political traditions. The most reliable anti-Nazis were, of. course, Communists. Old men were now running German local government because of lack of more suitable replacements. The middle’class must learn to take responsibility.