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Rome, October 3
The United States and other countries must absorb much of
Germany's over-crowded popula-
tion or the European Recovery Programme will fail. declared United States Congressman Fran- cis E Walter, today.
Mr. Walter, Chairman of the House Judiciary sub-Committee on Immigration, heads a six men
Congressional Committee
Government Of Entire Country
Berlin, October 3.. Soviet zone German political leaders conferred with Russian officials at Soviet headquarters in Karlshorst today to work out details of a new government which may claim to speak for all Germany, according to usually reliable German sources here.
completing a fact Ending mission High British officials expect that the new govern-
in Germany, Austria and Italy.
"There have been superimposed on Germany's struggling economy some 8,500,000 persons of German ethnic origin who either filed or were driven out at Saviet
con- trolled territory since the war," said Mr. Walter.
He indicated that he will seek the creation of an international body to plan the emigration of thousands of "carefully screened"
ment will be proclaimed in the next few days. General Vassili Chukov, head of the Soviet Military Administration, Ambassador V.S. Semeoney, his political adviser and the heads of all Soviet Military Government departments ak" tended the conferences, the German sources said.
the Soviet authorities in the Eas action is about to be taken by
ing were said to include Wil- Germans attending the meet- helm Pieck Chairman At the -Germans—to the United States, Communist Socialist Unity Party teen Zone of Gen-my---
Professor Hermann Kastner, Chairman of the Soviet Zope Liberal Democrats, Oito Nuschke,
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Lake Success, October 3. The final moments of the Poli tical Committee meeting this mcmning
thrown
·were
into a minor uproar,
The Polish delegate, Juliusz Katzsuchy, angrily demanded to know why a Greek trade union hader was "executed without reason in spite of the Greek Governement promise on Saturday morning that executions would be suspended.”
Dimitri Manuilsky of
the Ukraine
said: "Every night dozens of people were condemned to death and the deaths concealed from public opinion.
"There is a Greek island where the Communists are supposed to be rehabilitated. Well, we know all about that.
"Officers of the Liberation Army are tortured there, tied into sacks and thrown into the sea.
"In what way does this practice differ from those used by the Nazis?"
The Committee chairman, Les- ter Pearson of Canada, parried that the question could not be considered at the moment be- cause the disussion was limited" to the disposition of Italian colonies.United Press
STOOGES SAY THEIR PIECE
Berlin, October 3. Russia's protest note to the Western Allies against the form- ation of a West German Govern- ment was
important step towards German unity and an expression of Soviet support for democratic and
the
Chairman of the Zone's Christian
This paragraph states that " new situation" has been created the Western Government at Bonn, in Germany by the setting up of
particularly
Derate and former. Major which "renders of
Vincenz Muller. Secre- the Zone's Na-
Lary-General
tional Democrats.
Cabinet Ministers from all five provincial governments of the Eastern Zone have been summon- ed to Karlshorst for an import- ant meeting tomorrow, these re- ports said
The Soviet Zone leaders are expected to work out details of the new "German Democratic Republic" as it will probably the called.
When these details have been settled a meeting of the Soviet- sponsored "People's Council" will be convened to proclaim the new government formally.
A People's Council spokesman said today that the Council will) probably meet this week
Proclamation By Soviet
A constitution for a "German Democratic Republic," largely based on the Weimar constitution was worked out during the win- ter by the Constitutional Com- mittee of the People's Council and approved by the wider dele-) gate body the People's Congress, in May this year.
German sources claiming to be in close contact with the Soviet Administration reported) today that the proclamation of government with be preceded by a Soviet proclama-] tion defining its terms of res- persibility.
the new
The Soviet proclamation will also guarantee the conclusion of a peace treaty within a certain period and a definite settlement concerning reparations to be paid to Russia by Germany, the sources said
great importance" the reuniga of Germany as a "democratic and peace-loving State" and the ful- fiment of the Potsdam obliga- tions.
It was noted in Landon that in Berlin yesterday the Com- munist head-of the information Department of the Soviet Zone's Economic Commission, Gerhart Eisler, called for the creation of "Central German Government—not of an East Zone Government
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Herr India today proposed to
To create the impression of an all German Government, dele- gates resident in Eastern
Ger- many but nominally representing
the Western Zones might be in- cluded in the composition of such a Government, it was thought
Moscow Opinion
Sir
Lake Success, October 3.
the United Nations Political Committee the setting up of a special commission to supervise the creation of a Constituent Assembly in Libya and to investigate conditions in Eritrea and Italian Somaliland.
Benegal Narsing Rau, head of the Indian delegation suggested that the Committee set up a three-man commission, similar to the mission which the British Government sent to India in 1946.
Paris Denies Russian Accusation
Paris, October 3.
A Foreign Office spokesman today rejected Es without foundation Russia's accusation that France' Britain and the United States had violated the Big Four decision in set- ting up a West German state. Commenting on the Soviet note handed to the three countries, the spokesman sald there was absolutely nothing new in the Russian protest He added: "The argumenta are without foundation."
He also said France, Britain and the United States would have to consult, one another before replying to the Soviet protest-United Press.
The Soviet Union, it is believed in informed foreign diplomatic
Its purpose would be to study | appeared to be that the territories circles in Moscow, may look with suitable basis for favour on the
a "genuinely of Libya should creation by the local conditions and lay down a
be granted al- Germans of government in
most immediate independence. Eastern Germany.
Constituent As- representative
"India welcomes this develop- sembly" fer Cyrenaica, Tripoli-ments," he said. Such મૈં agreed, would probably be re-l
government, they tania and the Femin.
Under India's plan it would
Best Way garded in Moscow as more au- then be left to the authorities of Recalling that at the last ses- thoritative and
representative these three territories to decide sion India had proposed a period than the one at Bonn.
whether they wanted a.unitary of direct United Nations trustee- Should the Germans create a or federal constitution, or three ship for Libya, with independence government or administration in separate states with certain com- afterwards. Sir Benegal COD- Eastern Germany the Russians mon services.
tinned: "When an area is it for: would, it is believed regard it The three-man commission, Sir self-government, the usual course M. Panayotis Pipinelis (Greece) as something temporary, leading Benegal said, would not have any is to let the people of the area said that there seemed to be un eventually to a single government part in the day-to-day adminis frame. theks www constitution animous agreement CR inde- for the entire German nation.
tration of the territories while through their own representa- pendence for Libya and that These diplomatic circles feel the constitution was being work-tives".
should be the basis for proposals that Deputy Foreign Minister An- ea out.
The best way of securing this for that territory. drei A. Gromyko's note to the U.S., Britain and France has rzore or less indicated that Russia feels the time is ripe for the creation of some kind of German adminis- tration other than the one at
British officials in London agres with the view of Allied observers in Berlin and Western Germany Bonn that the formation of an East German Government appears im- minent.
They took this to be one of the reasons for the Russian re- ment in Geraceful develoo-
vival of the charge that the West- munist-dominated Socialist Unity dam Agreement
ern Allies have broken the Pots- Party declared here tonight
by permitting The Party's population and all the formation of a Federal State
in West Germany. German democrats and patriots wish to express their apprecia- tion, is a further guarantee that our just cause will be victorious in the end."
Obvious Hint
The charge was reiterated in the Soviet nate delivered to Bri-
The communique made notain, France and the United States mention of the creation of a over the week-end German Government in Berlin, The final paragraph of this note, which the Soviet note believed to it was pointed out here, contains have foreshadowed--Reuter, a transparent hint that similar
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He supported union of Eastern Eritrea with Ethiopia.
Sir Benegal thought that this would seem to be for th General whole process should not take Assembly to appoint com- more than three years.
mission for the purpose of set-
Mr. Alfredo Martinez Moreno In Danzig the process took two ting up the Constituent Assem- years, in India it was
(El Salvador) and Dr. Temng taking bly, in much the same way as Chi-yu (China) both supported nearly three years, and in Burma the British Cabinet sent
out By the principles the entire
of: independence process. only
to India took mission
for a similar for Libya, the claims of Ethiopia about eight months.
task in 1946.
They say this might have been what Gramayko meant when he
New Factor referred to a new situation has
For Somaliland and Eritrea, been created in Germany with the inauguration of the Bonn ggested that the proposed com-
the Indian representative ernment.
Berlin's Position
The Soviet note on the Western governments' creation and other attendant questions
the gave plainest proof that Russia will have nothing to do with the Boon organization.
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mission should be sent out to make further investigations the wishes of the inhabitants.
If the commission that those two territories were not ready for full self-govern- ment, then the Indian delega=; Lian proposed placing them under an international trustee- ship system.
*I contemplate mission, say of three experts chosen
basis.
од
for an outlet to
the sea, and
a small com Italian trusteeship over Italian
members. Somaliland-Reuter.
personal
"The existing regimes, that is to say the British and French Governments, could be asked to submit to the United Na *tions, after consultation with
- local parties and organizations,
a panel of three names
each
AIS EQNDITIONED
for COMING ATTRACTION
of the territories con- cerned, that is to say three for Cyrenaica, three for Tripol!- tania, and three for the Fezzan. "The General Assembly would then select one member from each panel yo as to make a leam of three.
The U.S., Britain and France were specifically accused of Sir Benegal declared: "The violating not only the Potsdam grant of immediate self-govern- decisions but those taken recent meat to Libya is in itself, an im- ly by the Council of Foreign rtant new factor in the situs Ministers in Paris.
tion
which we cannot ignore. "The commission should get to "Ideas leap across deserts. To work immediately upon appoint Should а government be created-in--Eastern Germany rant self-government in Libya ment, study local conditions, and
and
withhold or delay it in Somaliland or its neighbourhood lay down a suitable basis for a genuinely representative, Con- may conduce neither to content zaituent Assembly." ment nor to peace and security”. Sir Benegal said thay since the last Assembly the general opinion:
and the Soviet Union asked to recognise it, observers in Mos- cow are confident it would stand a good chance of recognition by Russia.
Speculating still further, these diplomats take the line that with the creation of a German au- thority in Eastern Germany, the tern Germany, would almost cer- Western Powers position in Bertainly become the eventual capital lin would become extremely pre- This, all agree, would throw a carious
new light on the Western position Berlin, the historic capital of in the city-Reuter and Ass Gerusoy, lying as it does in Eas-ciated Press.
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Only the Soviet proposals were based on the principles of the United Nations Charter, M Maruílsky maintained.
The proposals were that Libya Le granted immediate indepen- dence, all foreign troops being withdrawn within three mouths, and that Eritrea and Italian Somaliland be
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