possible developments. tary have been asked by."
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ar
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ts
en
ex-
Professing ignorance of cersary. tain other command, he ploded. "If every order had to be reported to me, I would have drowned in paper."
""
Goering told the court that he was of the opinion that "even Hitler did not know the extent of what was going on" in con- centration camps
The British prosecutor, Sir Maxwell Fyfe, asked Goering: "Do you expect anyone to believe that you were unaware of the deaths of ten million people killed
in cold blood in the camps and the mass
shootings?"
Gets A Laugh
Goering gave as the reason for his ignorance of these things that he never, during the war, listened to foreign broadcasts, except in the last few days and never read a foreign newspaper. Also the Gestapo Chiet, Himm-
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Goering drew
a laugh from
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ver,
and
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m-
ler, "kept these matters an ex-
the court when he interrupted Sir Maxwell with: "I object to
describing Himmler
you friend of mine."
as a
the
He then referred to the quar- oss
rel he had with Hitler over the ion ble shooting of 50 Royal Air Force officers in April, 1944, following 12 an alleged escape bid. "I never contradicted Hitler so strongly be or so sharply as I did in
matter of th R.A.F. fliers," he of said. "As a result of that, the Fuehrer and I did not speak to each other for months "
When the prosecutor asked him whether he still believed in Hit- ler after he heard of the killing ef- kh of the airmen, Goeing looked unccrifortabl and replied:
th.. the
the
ta.
wa
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uge 1)
about 14 t.
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In line with Truman's conser-i (Continued fra vation plan, the Army tighten- ed its belt. The quartermaster
This body of corps revised its master menus Communist leaders cutting rations for 100 men by licies which are ex 61⁄2 lbs. each for canned aspara- Foreign Commissar gus, beans, spinach and toma- aides. The names of all tho toes. Beets and cabbage were in the Politb 2 are not know reduced to 5 lbs. each, potatoes by the All
it is know 10 lbs., and bread 3 lbs.
that it cons
f Stalin's mo Truman signed legislation au- trusted men, including Andr thorising the Commodity Credit A. Zhdanov and Fresident Mi Corporation to pay an additional hail Kalinin as well as Molot $125,000,000 subsidies on meat. and Vishinsky. and $25,000.000 on flour With the exception of Stali through June 30. The legisla-Molotov and
Vinshinsky, th tion also authorises the continu-members of this poley makin ing of price support for suga" committee neve: have been ou from Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
side Russia and have had n and for vegetables and flaxseed.
fundamental understanding -Associated Press,
the problems of other nation They have become suddenly con scicus of their own strengt through a victorious war afte years in the status of an ur tried nation.
Dads Would
Be Released
Dominant Power
This feeling of power from Washington, Mar. 22. war-developed muscles is com Army chiefs yesterday pro-pared to the feeling in th mised Congress that all fathers in United States after the Span the armed services would be re-ish-American war and the su leased if the draft law is extend-
sequent years of Theodor
was no
macy.
ed for at least another year. Rocnevelt's "big stick" dipl The law expires on May 15.
Secretary of War Robert Pat- terson and General Dwight Eisen-
Tough-talking Vishinsky ca hower said if
the law
ried this feeling on the floor extended the United States mili- the United Nations at the r tary position might become pre- cent session in London. carious. They suggested to the has expressed the view privat House Military Committee that ly according to America draftees' service be limited to 18 sources, that capitalistic Uni months. the maximum size of the ed States and Britain have h army to be placed at 1,070,000 their peak and are on the dow and induction of fathers
grade while Communistic Ru prohibited.
sia Eisenhower asked
is just in the groevi for the con- job is done." Patterson request thing can spp Kusein and t tinuance of the draft "until the stage. His attitude is that n ed "at least one year extension." Communist system from ben
Associated Press.
FRENCH DEPOSITS IN JAPAN
to be
the dominant Lower in い world.
ત
eam not here to deify or giorify er Hitler, I am here to say that I have kept my pledges to him, A even now, because I believe in nt- keeping the oath of loyalty not
Vishinsky is one of the lea to only in good times, but in bad."
ing figures behind Russia's in No Humility
perialist policy of wideni Sir Maxwell Fyfe questioned
sphere of influence and "secur Goering on a document issued
Tokyo, Mar. 22.
ty" in buffer states. As ear by the German High Command
The Japanese Government has as 1943, when he first came in November, 1941, ordering es- been ordered by Allied Head- Africa, Vishinsky express eaped Soviet prisoners-of-war to quarters to transfer French de- the view that the "Mediterra be handed over to the Gestapo. posits now in the Banque can must no longer l a Britis Asked wheth Cis maler was Franco-Japonaise and Banque de lake but Russia must have a Lin Ah Liang, chief of the dealt with by his prisoner-of-l'Indochine, te
the main office outset there, too." Singapore branch of the Mala-war department. Coering
re-of the Mitsubishi Bank
Definite Policy Communist Party, was to- plied: "There were thousands of Tokyo. These two former banks
expansionist policy day sentenced to one year's ri- orders, but only the most im- were closed by an Allied Head- viewed by Americans as th of the Vishinsk 1945, which affected $6 wartime Molotov school f Cinemat and colonisatin barks.
the mili- to stand
van
The communique said that seve- ral men, who had been taking a
+
11
This
leading part in the dereliction of gorous imprisonment on char-portant were known to the Com-quarters directive c. Sèpt. 30, first step
duty had been dismissed.
The hunger strike arose from the demand for wage increases. The policemen's present wages are about 34/- monthly, with another! 34/- allowances. They are said to be demanding 123/- monthly, with various allowances.-Reuter.
DEFENCE MEDAL
ges of escaping police custody mander-in-Chief.” and of using violence but was acquitted of the third charge of inciting to riot,
To-morrow, Lin will face the court on a charge of sedition.
The Prosecutor asked Goering whether he had to behave with "obsequious humility" to Hit- ler, as Dr. Dahlerus wrote in his book. Goering replied: "I did The charges arose from in- not have to, and I did not." He cidents which cecurred in Sin-added with emphasis that had gapore on Feb. 15 when demon- Germany won, the picture given strations were staged to mark by Dr. Dahlerus would have the fourth anniversary of the been different. fall of Singapore to the Japa- nese.-Reuter.
Lordon. Mar. 22. Nearly one hundred miles of green and flame coloured ribbon to are to be distributed shortly four million civilians entitled to
London, Mar. 22. the Defence Medal-at the rate of The British Foreign Office to- 2' inches each.
day promised an early with- The conditions of issue general-drawal of British troops from ly are three years service in som Greece but emphasised it wants unit entitled to claim the Civielections to be held as soon as Defence Red Service Chevrons.
These include about 2,000,000 possible, despite pressure for Home Guards. about 1,000.000 postponement "some of it from Civil Defence Workers and 122,- outside and some frem within." 000 nurses.-Reuter.
-Associated Press.
Sir Maxwell quoted the record of a meeting attended by Gcer- ing, at which Ribbentrop alleged- ly said that Jews must be ex- terminated, or taken to concen- tration camps, and asked: "Do you still say that Hitler and yourself did not know that Jews were being exterminated?"
Goering replied:. "As far as Hitler is concerned, I cannot be lieve it. I knew of the migra- tion of Jews, but did not know
relations which helds that t) I.. Jankelevitch, who is the of- Communist system is at od ficial representative of French with the capitalist system an interests in Japan, was authoris- that eventually there will be ed to withdraw from accounts rcom for both. It also fits for normal expenses of the with the Stalin school of "wa
and see" while making Russ stronger.
French diplomatic nissions in Japan.-Associated Press.
RINGS SNATCHED
th
American cbservers feel th Russia will continue this aj gressive international diploma For snatching two gold rings pushing forward in all fiel from a jeweller's shop in Shang- until halted by her own limit hai Street on Mar. 21. a Chinese, tions or the united opposition Ip Sang, was sentenced to two of other nations. months' hard labour by Mr. W. H. Some Americans feel Latimer yesterday. Inspector Russia has embarked on a poli Wheeler who prosecuted told the which differs Court that accused went into the from that pursued in the las only in metho shop and asked to be shown two gold rings. He snatched them
century by Britain and the and ran away but was arrested United States. They feel, too by a policeman. Value of the rings that imperialism is dead in the
world and point
to Britain's
was estimated at $200.
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