Germans Anxious to Go To Australia

Grey River Argus, 10 November 1949, Page 5

Germans Anxious to Go To Australia

SYDNEY, November 9 In a farewell message to Australia before returning to Germany to-day, Pastor Niemuller said: “My opinion is that no peace treaty will be signed with Germany for many years. “Neither the East nor West State in Germany is likely to sign a separate peace treaty so long as there is tension between the two halves of Germany. I certainly cannot see Russia allowing the East State to sign a separate treaty. This makes the outlook for peace very dim.” He said that many Germans wished to migrate to Australia, but that, if Australia insisted on signing a peace treaty first, there would be no migration for many years. There were many fit and useful types waiting in Germany, he said, but at present they could not leave until the treaty was signed. He believed that the- human reasons to overcome this problem should be stronger than the formalistic reasons.