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What Kind Of
Of A Germany Is It To Be?
In its refreshment to the out. The Stuttgart speech should flism with free speech and fan mind and hope of the demo- clear the way for a joint and overruling executive rested at cratic peoples, Mr, Byrnes's amicable inquiry in all the great speech on the future of zones and for the restoration the German question still re- cf identical measures." verberates far and wide, except where its vibrations are artifi- cially mufiled. "For reasons that must be plainly distinguished we are only at the beginning of its effect.
The shape of its practical consequences, one way or the other, will depend on the de gree of assent or the furce of dissidence that the new pro- gramme, meets with from other Powers. And above all front Russia, whose co-operation on the basis of another and better Potsdam agreement is invited with the deepest earnestness.
For that purpose the Western leave no detail of the Nazi conspiracy and Governments must for its ghastly fruition have been bring a clear brain as well as stone unturned if they are, to Revealed, in evidence.. The whale
R clear conscience to the grim story has now been told. Pro- separate tasks and duties that |secution and defence have had will confront them afterwards should Russia for her part still rected in the next few days to adhere to a fundamental differ- deliver verdicts and sentences..ence of system. Lord Justice Lawrence, who This is the heart of the issue he settled President of the
Inter that will have to arional Tribunal, has added during the next few months. Fresh lustre to the repute of the British judiciary, remarked at its opening that this trial was "unique in the history of the jurisprudence pt the world and of supreme im- portance to millions of people all over the globe." There is indeed no precedent, for the attaining before an international tribunal of
HES
The Paris
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It is upon these solid four dations of security that Mr. Byrhes, proposes to build his fabric of urgent reform and rising prosperity in the Reich, however its future boundaries as a nation among the nations may be finally drawn.
In any Western view, actual or prospective, the situation before our eye makes a sorry and lamentable spectacle, The ceaseless dissensions of the Powers; the rigid barriers tween the zones, except for the happy Anglo-American merger; the physical conditions of ap- By J. L. GARVIN
palling wreckage
in industry
bottom on bereditary bases. which have been swept away for ever. Hitler's system, akin to Communism, was unification gone mad. Some middle way will have to be found if any kind of Provisional Govern- mert at the centre is to come into being.
At this point, Mr. Byrnes had to face as he did with admir able courage and coolness--the bristling question which will be inseparable in the long run from all the rest. We know what Germany was. We kri: w what she is.. How do we con- reive what she will be as a nation defined upon the map by settled and rightful boundaries in the cast and west?
There is a furious outburst of feeling in another quarter against. the suggestion that Poland should renounce part E her sweeping but not yet lega. a muddle and chaos of its kinilised anexations up to the such as has never been seen and cannot be tolerated,
and dire deficiency in agricu ture-all these together make
The pinch of hunger in the towns and urbanised districts will pass, but unless new and large remedies are applied the general depression of the stan- dard of life and misery of the nutlook will remain,
Oder-Neisse line. Nothing whatever can be done in t sense-without-the Union's co-operation.
Sovie!
own
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
PARTY
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COPR, 1948 DY ́KEA SERVICEING T.
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"And I suggest that Senator Smelf be drafted to deliver the speech on adequate clothing for the world--he's already had to buy his wife a summer outfit!”
The End of an Era
By
The immediate difference that this makes to people standing in queues, or going triumphantly home with a piece of meat, is that until recently, in fact til Just
a year ago, they could leave the
A jazdy dimculty arises from Mr. Byrnes's trenchan
I write this commentary on the of an excellently-stocked - nursery The whole time-table of
pronguncement against
the aspects of everyday life in Briana a battery of artery. be- diplomacy and discussion
Of course, it is possible that we further dismemberment of the tain from Southern Ireland, where tween Powers and nations has
Reich in the west. Parily on it is not admitted that there has may build stronger defences, but With Mr. Ernest Bevin's ent
war: # certain at present ncie of the toy-shops.. been rearranged. Conference, instead of adjourn tire concurrence in this part of the basis of reparations, partly quite been a
for the sake of political con- amount of, shall I say, scufling, of the world has anything of the more than an sort in stock, so that the students ment is allowed five or six it, the American Secretary of weeks more
no traveller in of strategy, diplomacy, and all the emergency; and to worm itself State once more entreats the ciliation towards France, the perhaps, but no through its labyrinth..
American spokesman approves four occupying Powers to work
the incorporation of the fron-reland is likely to hear any other other arts on which the safety of word than emergency used for it. nations depends. are like people Postponed for a month, the together as the Potsdam agree-
In Kent and London during the living in the age of iron, whose the principal organisers and the General Assembly of the United ment enjoins, but with improve tier coalfield of the Saar with
Battle of Britain I thought it was text-books Are all of the Stone main organisations concerned with Nations. will forgather on Octments that experience has sug-
the Fourth Republic. a gigantic common plan to com- 23 at New York. It will be a gested. Here. Mr. Byrnes tou- But M. Bidault's Government gaite a war, but that is not the Age, or people living in the age mit crimes against peace, crimes sounding-board for debate on ches the moving note of his and the majority of the French view taken in Ireland, so that of gunpowder whose only know- of war and
people regard that valuable look at life in Britain to-day from ledges of the use of the sword. crimes against hu- the American Secretary of human and sane appeal,
And I may say We are in fact at the very end of manity. History records many State's proposals, among other Let the zonal partitions be concession as a bagatelle by a little way off. cases of war criminals and politi-matters.
thrown down. Let there be free comparison with what is with that anybody who has ever to an era cal offenders being tried by a
Immediately after its pro- exchange of reciprocal produc held. Britain and the United single country; instances have ceedings and probably in tion as between industry and States-like Russia, which is of for very November-the four Foreign agriculture. According to Pots the same opinion been occurring over
LORD DUNSANY most of Ministers will begin their long-dam let the whole Reich be different motives--never can con Europe during the course of the deferred meeting for the ex-managed as an economic unit. sent to decree in their proceedings at Nuernberg. What clusive and exhaustive discus- Let exports be allowed to pay special sphere of responsibility write a description of any period, differentiates the Nuernberg sion on the future of Germany. for vital imports,
the total severance of the Ruhr or paint a picture of any land-portentous business of the future Court is not, however, merely its Then will come the stiffest tug-But one other thing is cer-It would be like tenting out the by stepping a little way back.
and Rhineland from the Reich cape, will always see it better to those whose duty it was to understand it, to statesmen, to international setting, nor the of-pencer aml the fateft choice tain. If just reparations are
But now nobody understands it. Standing of the defendants, but the of curses for both East and likewise to be met, the present racial heart as well as the Were I in London now, the first diplomatists and such.
of ordinary economic vitals of Germanything I should probably see would Nobody knows how a fleet or a be a quene, and I should be in iteity can stand against this new nature of the indictment, bearing West.
permitted levels Staunchly supported as a peaceable production in Ger- proper
all be and my interests would Jupon the whole Nazi regime, and
France will yet think better frantically occupied with the pate power. Nobody can foretell what the fairness of the Tribunal's whole by Britain, the Washing many must be boldly raised.
ton propositions for the reor- From the searching
of it for her own sake, con at which it moved, and my philo is coming. And yet, perhaps, we proceedings.
ganisation of the Reich fall un mic issue Mr. Byrnes passes sidering the collateral securi sophy devoted to inquiries as to Among the ordinary citizens der four chief heads. First, naturally to his third principal/ ties and multiplied guarantees why it didn't move faster. That we were. Look what has been happening to us for thirty years. of every country.
there has at security; second, prosperity; theme. The armed recupation that are offered by the America is the way we are all made. times been some criticism of the third, self-government; fourth, may last some years yet, per- of today.
But veer I step back a little Did anybody foresee it? And, if value of the latitude given to the the final demarcation of Ger- haps long years. The Western Russia's attitude is the way, I see, however dimly, a few he did foresee it, was it any use So perhaps if we drift along as that where the main facts were avoidable dismemberment of that it shall function meanwhile as of most situations. It must first thing I see as I step back is action taken to avert it?
not yet be assumed that her the extraordinary political situa- common knowledge a summary the German race.
no worse. The Germans, of as a political despotism in a constructive cc-operation with tion confronting not only us, but we drifted before, we shall fare: trial would have satisfied justice.
Take these issues in that or- Police State.." On the other side voices have der. Mr. Byrnes emphasises.
We can alm at nothing less: the West is impossible. That the whole world.
I see, as it were, a vista of tov couras, did plan for the future. supreme issue must be decided been raised, not least by the de. without flinching that the old than a liberal and liberalising when the Foreign Minister next fortresses spread out as far as the/ And how they must have derided
eye can see, as though the worlds for our apathy the package policy of Anterican "isolation régime using those words in meet to give their whole minds were one vast nursery floor, and. And yet look what has happen- from Europe is as dead as the questioning whether a "political dodo United States forces will the utmost liberty of life and to the future of Germany.
drawn up against these painted ed to Germany. It almost seems as though the future cannot be trial" (even if the politics in- take part in the control of Ger- mind consistent with the main by will have spoken on Peace That is the situation, and no
By then the General Assem fortifications, some real cannon foreseen, so that those whose plans volved, mass-murder) could fairly many for as long as there is tenance of disarmament. for come within the scope, of civilised cccupation by any other Power. peace. Nor can we ever raise and Security with the pre amount of hoping can make the are long worked out in the atmost jurisprudence. It is, however,
German efficiency and welfare dominant voice of mankind discrepancy between all our arma detail for what, after all, will not unthinkable that the minor This pledge has the substan- to
The master question is: "Two ment and the atomic bomb any less happen must be handicapped their maximum except
than that between the fortresses when they go to war with a happy-
go-lucky people who are unhinder figures who executed the crimes tial support of both the great through the medium of German Walds or One?"
ed by plans for events that will of Nazidom should be condemned political parties in the United administration.
never occur.: while its main directors went
States. It is not possible to unpunished. It would have been One cause of miversal disquieting Russia, are committed more over-estimate its importance.
All the major Allies, includ- almost equally deplorable if has been the fear that prema-
econo-
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Little Willie Wants To Be A Farmer
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Heckingen, Sept. 23.
• History has nothing to guide os, for the closest parallel; the in- vention of gunpowder. was, de- veloped saadually that man- kind had time to get used t The modern artillery barrage was not let loose suddenly at Crecy, as the atomic bomb was loqsed on Hiroshima; and cold steel, so far from being made obsolete in a day, ves used against guna right dowa: to our own time.
It is a strange new problem con- fronting our statesmen, and pet-
AUSSIE BIRTHS.
Goering and his associates had tare American withdrawal from or less to the extension of local heen afforded merely the travesty Germany would leave all Europe and provincial self-government. of a trial meted out to their open to irresistible Soviet The Americans, long since set opponents by a Nazi People's domination. We wan
the example by establishing Court."
German Possibly, as some be.. By comparison with Ameri lieve the speeches made in the ca's prodigious mobilised
famous and distinctive regions Crown Prince Wilhelm, head of the Hohenzollern family which once owned almost limitless es- dock will make these men appear strength in all elements as the of Bavaria, Wurttemberg-
tates, is looking for a farm where he can settle as martyrs in the eyes of many top of the war, her disarma Baden and Greater Hesse
down. future Germans; what is quite ment has gone dangerously too Russia herself urged at one fast and too far. But her token time the practical good sense certain is that if these speeches forces are the symbol of the and advantage of setting up a The Russian land reform in You know, the princeshaps the people of Britain will had not been made and refuted the legend of their "martyriom" mightiest potential that has contra though supervised Car Silesia, Pomerania and Brad should take up some kind of one day have to deal with it all by been known. It never can be man administration for the denburg has stripped the employment Crown Prince themselves, very much as they would have taken strong rept hightly challenged by any one.
yhole Reich Mr. Byrnes adopts Hohenzollerns of all their vas Wilhelm, said. "Their position dealt with Hitler. Reading the Nazi leaders' last Mr. Byrnes is as firm on the this principle and enhances itms and properties and left for the present is a difficult pleas one has once more are other indivisible factors that He proposes to constitute in them with only a 80-room one because they all have beer minder of the lust for power to touch both security and disder the occupation a real Pro castle, a museum piece balan brought up as soldiers, and
Canberra, Sept. 25. which they succumbed. Some armament Washington has not vision Government not nomi ed on the crown of a high hill haven learned a profession. till defiantly protesting their in withdrawn its earlier offer to nated--not otherwise "hand live miles from here.
"Hubertus has studied agri Alig reduction in Australian nocence, some perhaps genuinely Join a mutual insurance pact picked, as he puts it-by the "I is to impractical to live culture, however, and also is birth and marriages is to recesitant of the misdeeds at which between the four major Allies Allied Commission in Berlin in the Crown Prince said, and looking for a farm to operate be expected, according to the
Worked For Ford Department of Information against sny revival of German He suggests that its members then smilingly added: they connived, they all discharged militarism during 25 or even should be chosen by the elected young American office The Crown Prince said that A DOI bulletin atates that FW. FESTING, CH, CBE, DSO their responsibility on others, and 40 years following the ultimate local or provincial bodies which who visited it as do many Prince Louis Ferdinand, who the uumber of marriages for mainly on men now dead. No evacuation of reconstructed are about to come into existence American soldiers offered to once worked for Henry Ford the year ended June 10 was doubt Hitler and Himmler domi- and regenerated Reich.
in all the zones, including the take it oft my hands for a good and has toured the Unite 62822, compared with the war- nated these now fallen satraps. No These proffered pledges and
price, but I told him there States, has toyed with the idea time high total of 86,050 - In doubt, each of these survivors in guarantees of European safety The new national constituunt enough money in the of trying to go to America to 1941-1942
make a new start. The birth rate was rep. ted tempted to be a moderating in wit can attempt to plan, are would mean federalism of sorts, While on the lookout for a fluence. But during the lifetime without precedent in the annals whether looser or closer. That farm pessibly in Bavaria, the of finances was a problem now 21.79 per 1,000 population in of Hitler each was proud to be of the United States. As are name may mean anything frown Prince is living in that he had Jost his funds, the 1944-1945, when there were an axle, and not a brake, on the Jection of the old isolation nothing either strong counted villa in this French Crown Prince said he intended 160,560 births Associated
cupied town, within sight of "to fight hard for a reimburse Press. Nazi chariot, and if Nazidom had which made two world wars bination at the centre or weak conquered they would be preening staggering to the former gen-
castle, called Burg Hohen- ment on the estates in eastern possible they would have been connection between the parts.
ollern. About 100 years old, Germany which are being purwhite and the hot sun of Wuert themselves, on their loyalty. One eration of Americans. Perhaps The unavoidable complicate the third fortified castle called out to peasants under hetembern has tanned leading
purpose of the Nuern even unthinkable to the same tions of dispute will not turn it there by the Hohenzo Russian sponsored land reform leathery brown. He has
-- farming policy – which_ne | minimum of servants arou berg trial has indeed been to extent by the present genera at all upon the name of federa-lēms establish the principle that no lion before the discovery of theism, but partly upon the Prince Wilhelm expressed predicted would not work him in his simple housez called political leader, no general, not atonic bomba**
actual distribution of powers, concern about the younges The peasants haven't the "Villa Wolf admiral can, in future, plead in Los
* partly upon the number and degeneration of Hohenzollerns capital cr the machinery to Wherever the weather is nic. enough to feed the he drives his car up the five- defence of conspiracy outrage Nor are the considerations marcation of provinces Us wife Hermine, is living zo
the old-fashioned, mile long winding road to his and atrocity that he was but the without their immediate hear if the major Allies are toyith their second eldest son
here I bave the least chance of work Prince. Louis Ferdinan his big states, he said. Froine there in his plainly servant of State or the followerings on
in in ha
italife Princess Kira and their now on the people working, the furnished study overlooking ataces these matters ave six, children at Bad Kissingen farms will produce only enough the rolling contryside, the
of another son, Hubertus, is for themselves."
Grown Prince said, "I can re lig at Brüngen, Prince Freder
Villa Wolf feet and write my memoirs →→ The Crown Prince, who is 63 above all the conflicts and ten-
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