ALLIED CONTROL COUNCIL
BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE APPOINTMENT OF MONTGOMERY RUGBY, May 22 By command of the King, the Prime Minister announces that Field-marshal Montgomery has been appointed com-mander-in-chief of the British forces of occupation in Germany and the British member of the Allied Control Council in Germany. His chief representative for control questions will be Lieutenant-general Sir Ronald Weeks. ' Major-general Rooks, General Eisenhower’s assistant chief of staff, has been appointed General Eisenhower s chief of staff with the German High Command at Flensburg, says a correspondent at Supreme Headquarters. The main purpose of General Rooks s command is to impose the will of the Supreme Command on the German High Command and make such use of it as is necessary to control the German forces in occupied areas.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25852, 24 May 1945, Page 5
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