POSITION OF DOENITZ

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22612, 17 May 1945, Page 5

POSITION OF DOENITZ

NOT LEFT IN UNFETTERED CONTROL TEMPORARY USE OF GERMAN OFFICIALS REDUCTION IN RATION SCALE LONDON, May 16 An Allied statement issued today emphasises that the Doenitz regime is not the Government of Germany. The Allied Commission will not be in full control for several weeks, but Doenitz is not to be left with unrestricted power and influence. The statement says it is necessary to have some German authority working under Allied direction, and Doenitz and other German officials will be used temporarily in connection with the disarmament and medical care of the German armed forces. In pursuance of the statement of General Eisenhower on the cessation of fraterniaation with high-ranking Germans, Goering and other Nazis are to be moved to places where repetition of the offences will not be possible. General Eisenhower’s deputy military governor of Germany, Lieutenant-General Clay, stated that German war criminals would pay for their crimes with their lives, liberty, sweat and blood. Mr Churchill said in the House of Commons that he preferred to use “administration rather than government” in connection with the control of Germany. Germans would administer their country under the direction of the Allies, who had no intention of undertaking themselves the burde.. of German government. Mr Churchill is busy with the problems of the future of Germany. General Eisenhower lunched with him today and Mr Churchill later saw Field-Marshal Montgomery, who is named as the probable British representative on the Allied Commission. A new ration scale is to be introduced in Germany next month. Rations under the new Allied order will be reduced by one third. Food will be provided from German stocks alone, with no food importation for the German people unless there is acute famine. In Britain there is to be a reallocation of manpower, although the Minister of National Service, Mr Bevin, said nothing would be done to prevent the full weight being thrown against Japan. From the forces 750,000 will be released by the end of the year, beginning in June, most of them from the army. No more women will be compulsorily enrolled. Men over 65 and women over 60 may leave their jobs. Women over 40 will not be directed and those -under 21 will not leave their homes.