CURBING GERMANY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 120, 19 April 1944, Page 2

CURBING GERMANY

METHOD SUGGESTED. (Hoc. 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, : April ]B. The post-war prohibition of the manufacture of all explosives in Germany, was the object of a debate initiated by Lord Vansittart in the House of Lords. He asked the Government if it would appoint a committee of scientists to "prepare a practical and efficacious scheme, with particular regard to the control or elimination of Germany's nitrate and hydrogenation plants." The cause of world troubles to-day, he said, was that Germany had heen greatly over industrialised and must accept these things for the sake of the safety of Europe. Lord Varisittart's simple proposition was that Germany should make no more of any sort. Replying for the Government, Lord Obilwell said: The Government is determined that nothing shall stand in the way of our curbing as far as is humanly possible the German • war potential. The Government •is prepared and will take every step, however inconvenient, to prevent a recurrence of the disaster which has twice overtaken the world. He assured Lord Vansittart that the Government was going to invite professional scientists to take part in the deliberations on these matters and steps would he taken to supervise German research. Lord Vansittart withdrew his motion. —Official "Wireless.