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“PEOPLE’S CONGRESS” PETITION ON GERMAN UNITY ORGANISATION IN BERLIN Rec. 11 p.m. LONDON, May 21. The Berlin correspondent of The Times reports that the Ameiican authorities have refused to allow the so-called “People’s Congress to organise a petition on German unity in the American sector of Berlin. Ihe' project has already been banned by the French authorities in their sector. No announcement has yet come from the British,' but it is understood that they do not intend to ban the petition in the British- sector, believing that by doing so would merely provide the Communists behind ' the “ People s Congress” with means of exaggerating the importance of what is essentially a Russian propaganda move. The Americans point out that the “ People’s Congress ” is an unauthorised organisation, and that in any case there is no genuine need for the petition, since German unity is the one issue on' which Germans everywhere are agreed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26778, 22 May 1948, Page 7
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