ALLIES AND GERMANY

Grey River Argus, 12 August 1946, Page 5

ALLIES AND GERMANY

FRENCH PROPOSALS Soviet to Stop Supplies (Rec. 5.30.) LONDON, August 10. The French answer to the United States plan for the zonal fusion of Germany has been tabled, at a meeting of the Control Council. The answer consists of a series of counter proposals, including a provision that Allied central economic agencies should not control the Saar. This is stated by Reuter’s Berlin correspondent.

General Koenig (France), stated: First, France does not object to the establishment of Allied agencies using German operative personnel to effectuate, temporarily Germany’s economic unity, provided that the measures do not affect the Saar region, which would immediately be integrated into the French economic and Monetary system. Secondly, France holds that the establishment of a central German administration should not prejudice the political situation in Germany. Thirdly, the managei’ should be an Allied national. Fourthly, boards should be established for transport, communications, banking, industry, agriculture, foreign trade, and prices. The cbrrespondent says: In the British view there is nothing new in the French proposals. Britain and America , believe that it would be more profitable to achieve unity by making use of German agencies which would be able to ensure smoother operation. Russia has not expressed her view on the matter. It has been referred to the Co-ordination Committee.

Mr. Hynd, British Cabinet Minister, in a speech in Dusseldorf, foreshadowed further increases in rations in the British zone of Germany. He announced a decision to equalise the rations in the British and American zones as the result of a fusion. He said: “We are anxious to make further increases as soon as possible, but it will depend on the world position.” He said they were little more than children in 1933 and were misled and betrayed. He asked them to turn their idealism towards reconstruction of the country in friendship and understanding. Russians Stop Food Supplies FOR BERLIN INRUS-H OF JEWS FROM EAST (Rec. 6.30) LONDON, Aug. 10. Russians gave no reason for suddenly stopping all food supplies from the Russian to the British zone in Germany. The Daily Herald’s Berlin corresponclmt says: This stoppage by the Russians directly contravenes the Four Power Agreement for the joint responsibility in feeding Berlin. The correspondent says: “More than one million Berliners are now facing grave shortages of milk, fresh meat, vegetables, unless representation now being made to the Russians bring about a withdrawal of their order. A United States spokesman in Berlin said that the Russian commander, Major-General Kotikov had attempted to suppress stories published m the. British and American sectors of abductions of German boys in the Russian zone, states the Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press. A responsible German official expressed the opinion that the abductions were for education designed for the long range Sovietisation of Germany. The Commander in Chief in the British zone of Germany, Marshal oi the Royal Air Forte, Sir Sholtn Douglas, speaking at a press conference in Berlin, announced that tighter British controls were being instituted to halt the illegal flow ot Poles, including Jews and other nonGerman displaced persons, to the British zone.

He said that 5000 displaced persons had entered’ the zone surreptitiously, mainly through Stettin. He had issued instructions to the deNazification panels which amounted to an amnesty for Nazis under 2 7 years.

Speaking at Frankfurt, the' United States Commander, General J. T. McNarney, said that the movement of .lews into the American zone was well organised. “I am trying to discourage organised movements from other areas,” he said. “The United States has never attempted to adopt the policy that the United States zone is a station en route to Palestine or anywhere else.” The movement ot Jews through Germany was going to cost the American taxpayers £20,000,000 when the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ended, leaving to Americans the responsibility of persons’ camps.