TERMS FOR GERMANY

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 22992, 8 September 1944, Page 5

TERMS FOR GERMANY

Surrender Must Be Unconditional (10.10 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 7. It is semi-officially stated in London that General Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, has been given sole power to grant Germany an armistice on the basks of unconditional surrender. This will be the only method of surrender open to the Germans —complete capitulation by the German General Staff to the Allied commandex- in the field. It is emphatically stated in London that there will be no preliminary talks and no bargaining—the German army must collapse and cease fighting, and the commander of the German armed forces in the field must bring endorsement from the German General Staff personally to General Eisenhower. The Allied supreme commander will then present a document setting out the Allied demands for a free hand in all matters relating to enemy forces, food, transport, economic and financial facilities, and industrial and political affairs. The order to cease fire will be given only if the Germans accept the terms in their entirety. It can be stated authoritatively there is no person or any body of persons in Germany with whom the Allies will have any dealings except on the basis of unconditional surrender by the German General Staff. Germany this time will not have the slightest chance of saying that her army was not defeated. The Allied Governments realise that an unequivocal and uncompromising demand for unconditional surrender will induce Goebbels to try to stiffen the Germans in the last phase of their fight. Nevertheless, the Allies are agreed that this 4s the only way to seal the fate of the Nazi leaders and break Germany’s military power.