1949-04-27 — Page 9

FULL AGREEMENT ON NEW GERMAN STATE Republic To Operate Within Next Few Weeks

Frankfurt, April 25.

The Western Allies and German political leaders today reached full and final agreement on a Constitution for the new West German Federal Republic.

The terms were hammered out by the three Allied Military Governors and 17 German representatives from the Bonn Constituent Assembly. a Con- which has for eight months been seeking on agreement on stitution acceptable to the Allies.

The agreement completes the framework for the proposed West German State and its actual creation, including democratic elections, may now

WITA

be only a matter of weeks.

that

control will “We made them willmely in the The hand toolax's diariissions | declaration, All

interest at the German people. proposal become mainly supervisul y

that by this General Clay said: "It can be We sincerely hope

the Constituwe greatly contributed to a pro5- expected tion, as passed by the Parlia perous future of Germany and of

be Europe.** mentary

Assembly, will ready by May 15. They should Government by the have indole al July."

crated by the Gerrans with 48 hours of receiving a mode from the Alled For the last Friday, Cheras, to be fino tak but ma within work. to frame the Con

The agreemen, T

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General

GAVPERDE,

Financial Powers

Dr. Adematter explained to the

press that part of the agreement Finch been reneheri s the party leaders only tonight in the inters vals of their discussions with the

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1949,

Occupation · Statute For West Berlin.

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Berlin, April 25,

A draft occupation statute for the thred Western sector of Berlin was completed here today by a three-power Com- mission as a parallel to the statule for the Western Zones, the Amerlean-licensed nowe agency, DENA, reported to- night.

All legislative rights con. ferred on the West German Laender will In Berlin bo vested in the Magistrat (the Western City Berlin's currency, Imports and exports, and the

dis. 1 Sution of airlift supplies I remain under Allled con- TPJ. The statute will handed to the three Western Commandants for approval

Britain Softens Her Attitude

To Franco Spain

Landon, April 25. Britain' has started, step by step, to soften her attitude toward Spain, diplomatic quarters hare, believe.

Official quarters are non-committal about de- velopments pointing to eventual. British ac- quiescence in receiving Spain back into the family of Western nations.

A Foreign Offee spokesman However, olher quarters point:

Mr. attitude out that even

Mayhew's Bat the Government's Administratio).

representa a slight Is the same as outlined earlier statement this month by the Foreign Under- withdrawal in Britain's position will oppose Secretary, Mr. Christopher May- that she no longer

restoration of diplomatic relations hew.

with Spain.

at their meeting next Thurs- day, the agency said.--Reu.

ter.

Support For New German Government

Middlebury, Vermont,

April 24. Former Representative Charles LaFolette said today

States that the United

must Support a strong central gov- rnment for Western Germany if democracy were to flourish

By July subject to other and appare val low the General Clay said the text of be made

there. w31 Bom Asetulay and La Die Alled the Constitution Government.

pantie by both the German re- Mitary Governors, These dose

Military Surat details of the school mms!! Barfly

and the presentatives

sil remÁT or three days church compromize Governors it two

been

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and the "Times" "Daily Telegraph," today stress- ed the need for closer relations with Spain in light of the cold

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At the same time, military quarters renewed pressure for widening the Atlantic Pact to

with include Spain

its last- Hamburg, April 25,

ditch defence line along the Indictments against three tur-

Pyrenees. mer German Army leaders-Field

Paris despatches report Marshal Von Rundstedi, aged 74, Field Marshal Fritz Von Menstein, similar feeling in official quarters

und 77, aged

Colonel Genoral there, that the time has come to Adolf Strauss, aged 60 - now review and revise relations with whatever her Govern- a British Spain, waiting trial before Military Court, are expected to be ment.

Both the French and British received here soon.

Members of the British War Governments are forced,

caution by Crimes Unit here have had their ever, to move with

In their leave stopped until the charges the weight of opluton have been handed to the generals. mala supporting parties, the So- The three generals were brought cidlists-United Press, to Hamburg to face trial oní char. ges of crimes against humanity last nutumn, after more than three years as prisoners of war in Aritain.

who resigned Mr. LaFollette, as director of the United States Once of Military Government for

They have been detained in a January Wurtemberg-Baden in

British military hospital here. tu because of his opposition

Field Marshal Waither Von policies, Decupation

Brauchitsch, who was to have Germany decentralised

been tried with then, died in cua- tody Jast

was 67,-- year. would lack the power to nurture daircracy.

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were amper ente Fab for lay's made. marelinat 1 Alipay Governors gave then emosyal to the latest the de- Cersion proj

fie di not know what methods arthuto

brate fol and Tests- The Germans

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select for

I told latvy

Annual the autifying the Constitution. power Federal, Goverbourne

He said the Blam Committee at mittee, told the ineeling today Middlebury College conference a tti States with dy kamint modifies- Bonn hat

the hope that the Social expressed

weak government was favoured Le p Allis 6311 the that it tlons,

enterprise unrestrictedl it could hold elections

Assembly thorny question of the funeral

and by the crowd in Germany Auoilies auther to the drafting the new Governament

France. have been by July 15. The Assembly woud administrator of Western

Violent elements in plans behoved to

the propost responsibility of vate talk among them have the

"Granting that a strong gov- many uncles Constitution rusl be taken

of con- hands in the

second setting up the new "Festeral Re-Cons

the ernment a wholes left as a ...!

servatives or reactionaries might hour con- publle of Germany."

He explained the *** Declining to disclose details of

Bistribution 05 ve menacing," he added, "but if understood to have uxiny's agreement, General Clay posols for the

ers this is the only way in which out-su: "We have been doing a lot financial and legislative powers dernocratic forces can possibly be arreriment 0

Federal between the we do n

Governo

aired, then wisdom diclates the concerning of talking today anel Printa

or four different ver- ment and the Stiles, agreed by choice of a way in which churcires and schools, elimina.

want three or

during might be a committees that reservations

chance rather than sions of our discussions getting inter-party ting the risk

Preliminary re- In this sphere might break the jabout until we and the Germans the week-end,

that which seems to be hope- have had time

the ports hand indieratiek that these to prepare

less."United Press, compromise on other problems

esact wording and translation." were broadly with the

the scope Council's Powers

Berlin will not be included in the latest Allied directive. A pokkal anviper acrumpân-

though The Allied

tives then led each of the tug Military The West German State.

eventual Ji- asked the Germons for a etarill- at the tine. With this may be an

!cation of some of their propuscel sibility, General Clay sakl. cienerat Sir F

powers of text, notally on the Four-Power Talks British Miltary

also the Federal Council. They Mr. Christopher Steele, his poll- Asked whether lolay's agree-he Heal advere, wills General Clayment closect the door to the passought Information on the pur- talks on pose of the clause allowing a re- Rubent Murphy, chiefsitality of four-power

New York, April 25. of the Gemas soetion

of the Germany, General Clay sale: " distribution of States taxes by

with do isra!

Particularly Federal law on a basis of local

The American Medical Asso- French changes the subject as far as the need instead of local yield,

ciation has alleged that Presi- to M. Je talks are concerned."

Truman's Forei French

Refusing to stale an exuel late

dent Congress on Friday, in which change of for his retirement from Germany

General Clay, who presided he outlined his national com- the French Famison Mission atas Military Governor, General

Over the mecting, repeatedly pulsory health insurance pro- Clay sald cautiously: "I hope to

pressed his objections to any

gramme, contained a great deal Details of the final compromise be here when the Constitution is

clause allowing a re-dletribu-of double talk. drawn up by the German poll-ready by May 15. 11 was not an

tions of taxes such as that pro-

A statement, issued by the ticans wire sent to the Military easy meeting, but it resulted in a

posed. linppy solution for Governors before the meeting.

On the French sile it was felt AM.A.. said what the President General Sir Brian Robertson that the reduction of the legis had actually proposed "would regiment the doctor and patients powers of the Federal alike under a vast bureaucracy." stated tonight

thelative that both

Counell, representing the States It said the adoption of the system major

German parties made concessions. # may say Governments, had gone too far of politically-controlled medical

in the latest German draft. The practice

turn back the would Bavarian Government has pro-clock of medical progess in the tested against their

reduction.

United States by 50 years. Though mest Christian De- "An inevitable deterioration in which mocrats seem willing to ignore the quality of feare which would Christian result from the Goverment-herd- in the latest German the

was Mr.

State

Hobertson. Governor, was

General Pierre Koentr bitury

Cuve: Lor Sauvagees. Once ed es

Bonn.

reit

At one stane the Grensans re-cerned."

tired fur in hon to prepare an

answer to the hiretions ratsert

by the Governors to certain points:

in the

comprin[26

proposals,

think

it

all con-

that the Military Governora have also been very co-opera- tive." he added. General Robertson asked to be excused from discussing details

The first point had been raised by the French, the second by the Americans,

of their protest

U.S. Doctors Up In Arms

message

Points on, which the Allied re- presentidives asked to clariften- particularly the tion included powers of the Federal Comell. They also sought information ou the purpose of a chuse allowing

medical imilis a redistribution of State taxes draft had been changed in to-Social friends in Bavaria in the ing of patients and doctors in the by Federal law out R basis of day's discussion. "It was in some interest of an overall agreement, assembly-line

the strong interest taken by the would lower the standards of the fcent need instead of legal yield. cases merely a matter of being French delegation in this matter healthy United States to those of General Sir Brian Robertson sure that things expressed in nu has made their position more xlck, regimented Europe," the

the full and final agree other language really meant the greetcel

A.M.A. яald-Reuter, ment us historie

stuge in the same thing." he said,

Pre- relations between the occupying Dr. Konrad Adenauer, powers and the German people,sident of the Bonn Constituent

General Clay forecast the set-Assembly, said tonight ting up of a bow Republic by the parties represented

middle of July. With its birth, the sembly had reached agreement Allied Mditary Clovernments will on all outstanding questions, be withdrawn, and, in the words "We all had

sacri- to make of the threr-power Washington Alces," he told a press conference.

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NEW POST FOR 'DR. BUNCHE?

Washington, April 25. Dr. Ralph Bunche, United Na tions Mediator for Palestine, is reported to be under considera- Hon for nomination as Assistant Secretary of State

Informed officials say he is a likely choice as one of four new uides to the Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, whom Con- gress has been asked to authorise. Dr. Bunche is regarded as well qualified for the post of Assistant Edinburgh, April 25.

Secretary for Near Eastern and Frank experimental talks

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The Conference was approve a proposal that talks on sex should be given to boys and girls in secondary schools through- out Scotland. The lessons, Bus- trated by Alms, are not merely today that men in Russian uniform factual recitals, the

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