STAMP OUT JUNKERS.

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 61, 7 August 1944, Page 1

STAMP OUT JUNKERS.

AFTER THE WAR. When asked what should be done with the Germans after the war, Yanks from Anzio beachhead say it’s hard to look straight into the future over sights of a gun, but that all must lea i n that war doesn’t pay. What docs the average American s ddies believe should be done with the enemies of the United Nations ail i the war? The answer of the fighting boys is: "You get a prejudiced view about what ought to happen to the Germans after the war if you look at them long enough over machine gun or rifle sights, but 1 guess the most important thing is to prevent them from trying strong-arm stuff again. The Junkers who tell them it’s a paying game have got to be stamped on good and hard. So have any guys of the same sort in the United States—and we’ve got some, too, like most other countries." That was the answer of Sergeant A. K. Morgan, of Meriden, Connecticut, a lumberman in California before the war. He was on a brief leave after the tough battle experience at the Anzio beachhead when 1 met him and asked him "What shall we do with the Germans after the war?" (writes Ronald Stead in the Christian Science Monitor). He added: "The soldiers’ job is to beat the Germans—it’s up to the politicians to make sure they don’t have to be beaten again." "DON’T MAKE OLD MISTAKES." "That means they musn’t make any of the mistakes the politicians did after the First World War," broke in Staff-Sergt. Clyde O’Grady, of Tulsa, Oklahamp., who was with Sergt. Moigan. He is in the United States Army Postal Service personnel, and had been attending to mail sorting and delivery •under fire at Anzio. He is a radio salesman in life. "I’d say," he continued, "that, what tfe do to the Germans is less important than what we do with them. They musn’t be given a chance to nurse any grievance arising from pence treaties so they can make a national crusade for redressing it. GREAT WISDOM NEEDED. "There’s got to be the greatest wis dom in deciding what lines Germany must run on in the years following the war and the greatest firmness in compelling them to stay on .them. We’ll have to see they don’t get away with any secret preparations for another fight or pull any bluffs the way they did before this war. "But they must be allowed to go back to normal development for their own benefit and in order that their many good qualities be used for the general benefit of hunyuiity. We’U have to watch what they do in their schools and keep a close eye on their government. "Supervision must be not to seivc an\- particular American or British interests but to serve the interests of peace—which arc everybody’s int *rests. 1 guess all the boys feel that v .«y whether they put it that way or not."