REACTION IN GERMANY
BAD EFFECT ON OCCUPATION TROOPS Recd. 11 p.m. New York, Sept. 20. “General MacArthur’s statement that 290000 troops would occupy Japan had a bad effect here upon both American troops and the German people,” says the ’“New York Times” Wiesbaden correspondent. The latter saw a hint that the American occupation of Germany might not be as long and rigorous as expected. The Germans feel, rightly or wrongly, that the American attitude to Japan is a pretty good barometer of the attitude to Germany. The statement has been another blow at the morale of the troops in the European theatre, where everybody hopes to go home. The general attitude is that if the United States can manage Japan with 200,000 something must be wrong with the plans for Germany—or Japan.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 224, 21 September 1945, Page 5
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