LAW IN BERLIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23261, 24 July 1945, Page 5

LAW IN BERLIN

Military Commission To Meet <7.30 p.m.) BERLIN. July 22. A senior officer of Field -Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery’s Military Government Administration told a correspondent that the \llied Control Commission for • Germany would be ready to meet I and legislate from Berlin early in \ugust. i The Military Government had I a’ eadv solved or staved off most of ; th? pressing problems which arose , afior capitulation. Bigger pmble’r.s j aflectirg the future of Germany, -uel: j as transport and signal comm’mica.j lions could be solved satisfactorily j only if Germany was regarded as a 1 whole There was obvious need tor I inter-zone co-ordination because the ; best, use of available economic re- • sources, which at present were ini adequate, could be made only by i exchanges between various zones of ! occupation. Much had already been j accomplished as the result of meeti ings between the British. Americans. | Russians and French and the co- . ordmating machinery is beginning to emerge. ■' The officer said that the Military ! Government departments of health, finance, justice and internal affairs. I including public health, post and tele- ' graphs, public safety and local government, would first have to be transferred to responsible divisions of | the Control Commission. Between I 5000 and 6000 British civil servants I and army personnel were already | working with the Control Commission.