EAST AND WEST GERMANY

Grey River Argus, 24 November 1945, Page 5

EAST AND WEST GERMANY

BIG THREE ATTITUDE

France Points Out the Marked Contrast (Rec. 8.40). WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. Mr J. F. Byrnes (Secretary of State) had an interview with M. Maurice Couve de Murville, Director of the French Foreign Affairs Ministry. The latter came to the United States to seek support for the internationalisation of the Ruhr, and the formation of a sovereign state of Rhineland. Mr Byrnes told him that France should do something to break a deadlock on a decision by the Allied Control Council in Germany. Mr Byrnes said that there was no final United States policy on the Ruhr and the Rhineland. They were only part of a much larger situation. He said that the Potsdam Agreement had provided for agencies for transport and for a central currency in Germany, but there were held up. Mr Byrnes asked that France should be asked to facilitate them. M. de Murville said that, his Government was not a party to the Potsdam Agreement. France only was a member of the Control Council. Mi’ Byrnes replied that -the United States was a party to the Potsdam Agreement. It was anxious to comply with every commitment. Mi’ Byrnes said that the territorial questions as to Germany were matters for the peace conference.' M. Murville, however, told a press conference that the eastern boundaries of Germany, as distinct from the western boundaries, appear to have been fixed by, the Great Powers. There consequently is no good reason why the western boundaries could not be solved in a similar way. He indicated that the French are moving,, though alone, for definite Ruhr-Rhineland policy objectives. This was because France is not satisfied that Britain, America and Russia have taken adequate steps to guarantee French security. OCCUPATION OF GERMANY PARIS, Nov. 22 France has protested to Britain and America against the proposed reduction of the amount of German coal to be allotted to France in December. The Government spokesman said, the British proposed to reduce the coal to be exported’ from Germany in December from a million and a half tons to nine hundred thousand tons. He alleged that France was perturbed by the possible Allied softening towards Germany. BERLIN, Nov. 22 The British police in an intensive drive to smash the black market in the rich agricultural province of Westphalia bordering the faminethreatened Ruhr, confiscated 1,422 tons of foodstuffs, ten thousand eggs, and more than five hundred cattle and arrested eight hundred black marketers. LONDON, Nov. 22 A German ex-soldier, who is reported to be semi-crazed, last night shot two British soldiers through the head, says the Associated Press correspondent at Herford. One died on the way to the hospital and the other is reported to be in a critical condi tion. The shootino- occurred near Bunde One of the victims before collapsing in a comma, told how a tall thin uniformed German approached' them and wanted to sell a watch. They refused, and the soldNer drew a revolver and fired at their heads fit close range. The British military police are conducting an intensive search for the German. “Hitler and Eva Braun were very much in love, but not to the extent that they had children.” said Hitler’s butler and confidant, Arthur Kanneberg, giving evidence before a British Court at Boon. He added that they were married two days before the'capitulation. PRAGUE, Nov. 22. The Czech Parliament unanimously approved the cession of Ruthenia to Russia. The vote approved a decree issued last June.