BRITAIN AS BASE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25203, 16 May 1945, Page 7

BRITAIN AS BASE

UNITED STATES TROOPS END OF OFFICIALESE LONDON, May 14 The United States will no longer use the United Kingdom as a base. On I) Day there was accommodation in Britain for 1,250.000 troops and 400,000 United States airmen, but the numbers have now been reduced to *300,000 in each category. London is more popular ae a leave centre than either Brussels or I'aris, but the number of Americans wishing to spend their leave here will now be restricted to the official services accommodation available. Just before D Day more than 3,000,000 acres in England, Wales and Northern Ireland—one-thirteenth of the total area—had been set aside for training divisions which went to France. Less than 50,000 acres now remain under American control. They are being used for the training of infantry reinforcements. WAR CRIMINAL TRIALS "PSYCHOLOGICAL NECESSITY NEW YORK, May 14 "The trial of war criminals is a psychological necessity, if any sense of justice is to survive among the peoples of the world," says the New York Times in an editorial. "Methods of procedure may differ in different countries, but it is urgently necessary that trials be jointly organised and prosecuted promptly with dignity, gtern justice and thoroughness."