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? |, in ,,nil L ? vmliM I 1-f ?T,V;TN|i||Tiirgi|M If r#T?x^? A X# K) Pit IV^i Lf J 1 W w M Wm A A Allied Occupation of Germany Thankless Job Methods for Restoring Normalcy to Reich Meet With Criticism From Smaller Liberated Nations of Europe. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNC Service, 1616 I Street N. W., Washington, D. C. With the fanfare accompanying the first steps of the occupation of J apan now dying on the Pacific breezes, some hints of the heavy responsibili ties of Uncle Sam's European problems begin to appear. Already the small nations which were occupied by the Axis and whose peoples resisted the Nazi-Fas cist yoke are being heard from in a rising chorus of complaint and criticism against the Allies. Belgium and Holland are perhaps loudest in their charges of what they feel is discrimination against them In favor of their former enemy neighbor, but voices are raised as far away as Greece and Yugoslav ia, which say that Germany and Italy should not receive material assistance on the same basis as the once-occupied countries. The charges from Holland are the most specific. The Netherlands gov ernment has presented claims for a share in both the external and in ternal assets of Germany as repara tions. The note handed the Allies asks for immediate return of loot now within the occupied zones in Germany, which the Dutch claim is listed and identifiable. They say that parts of their country were stripped bare of capital and consumer goods; that some of the former, such as machinery, is now being used to the advantage of the Germans. _ In addition to the formal protest, Col. J. C. A. Faure, deputy chief of staff of the Netherlands civil affairs administration, was quoted in Lon don as saying that the Allied mili tary governors were playing into German hands when they prevented the Dutch, Belgians and French from reclaiming immediately ma chinery and other property stolen from them by the Nasi armies. He said that protests to SHAEF, while it existed, were fruitless "and when the new child (the British and American occupation organization) was born it was too young." He ex plained it was understandable that since the Allied commanders in their respective spheres have their hands full in creating order out of chaos in Germany, each wants to do a good job, and for that reason doesn't want to lose any material aid that will help. But that doesn't provide much comfort for the Dutch or Belgian farmer who looks across the fron tier and sees a German peasant driv- i ing home a cow which he swears he knows is his by its crumpled horn and the spot on Its rump. The same applies to the factory owner who is positive his property is turning wheels in Germany. Army Aim: Spood Job From sources in close touch with conditions in Germany I heard this example which pretty well echoes Dutch explanations but doesn't solve their problem. For instance: An Al lied commander moves into a Ger man town. One of the first things he wants is light and power. His men repair Lie power plant. Later It ia claimed that the main dynamo was stolen from Holland. That is not the commander's affair. Light ing the town is. His job is to re store the place as nearly as possible to a self-supporting (community. But that is not the end, for the ? restoration of European economy as a whole ia of vital importance and naturally those nations which suf fered under the German heel feel they should have first call on the sinews of normality, especially when those sinews were torn from their body economic by Nazi hands. On this score there have already been rumblings of complaint against the American occupation. Already the wheels of German factories sre turning In ths American zone. The purpose is to manufacture goods and provide services required to keep the occupation forces going and to stgiply the minimum needs of the community. The Germans hsve to have shovels and hoes and rakes (1 they are to till their fields and cultivate their gardens in order to get enough food to live on. These tools, if made and sold, would be In competition with goo<ta the Americans make. But there are not enough ships to carry a vast supply of such products across the Atlantic and besides America has a big waiting: demand of her own. Therefore, in many cases German capital may be used to resuscitate German factories and Germany money will buy its prod ucts. The Americans are doing ev erything to facilitate this type of re construction (light industry and manufacture of household equip ment). If necessary and they can do it, they will see that a missing shaft or flywheel is obtained some how. They permit the Germans to combine partly damaged factories into one complete plant. They en courage reconversion of certain plants from wartime to civilian use. It so happens that of all the occu pied zones the one which the Ameri cans control is capable of creating most easily a balanced economy. It is a land of small towns and vil lages, most of which were not im portant enough to have been bombed. It is a land of cattle and of orchards, of fields and meadows. It is highly probable that with American organization to guide the people this area will be the first to regain a fairly normal life. If we don't help the Germans, we'll be criticized for fumbling; the occupation will be made more dif ficult. If we do help, we will be under heavy criticism from the peo ples of less fortunate areas and charged with treating the former enemy better than we treat our friends. The British operate in a far less favorable area, for ihey have the bombed-out Ruhr on their hands and they control a territory whose exist ence depended on industries which no longer exist and which will not be permitted to exist in the future. Such factories as they can operate to maKe me community seu-sup porting may well be equipped in part with stolen machinery. Run Strip German Induetry The pattern of Russian occupation is quite different. The Russians know what they are doing in their zone. They are treating the "little people" with kindliness, assuring them that they need have no fear of oppres sion. Their apparent intention is to divide up the land and give the Ger mans a chance to win a livelihood from the soil, meanwhile giving them a thorough indoctrination in the advantages of the Soviet form of government. At the same time they are removing every movable piece of machinery to Russia. Meanwhile, Poland will be allowed to scrape together such German ag ricultural equipment as she can sal vage in East Prussia. Disease is rampant in Poland: there are short ages in all kinds of equipment. The Germans took most of the agricul tural machinery; much of the rest was destroyed and the whole coun try wrecked. The other next-door neighbors have not even such an opportunity to recuperate their losses. And so the Americans will prob ably bear the onus of helping the for mer enemy most of all, although their only intent is to carry out the program agreed upon by the Allies. America wants no loot. She does want all she can get in the way of important formulae; all she can team of German methods; all of the ideas which can be adapted success fully to American life. Already some valuable scientific information has been obtained and in many cases the German scientists, with that disinterested attitude character istic of their profession, are quite as willing to work In an American lab oratory as they were in one run by the Nazis. America also wants to finish her occupation job and get out. A part of that job is to make the Germans self-supporting. Thus, it is quite likely that an other complaint will be raised that we are forming too friendly a bond with people of a nation the world came to detest so thoroughly. ? ? ? In the years 1M0-43, a total of 7,851 persons were killed in farm accidents in the U. S. Machinery caused 47 per cent of the deaths, livestock 30 per cent, and all other causes 33 per cent. Wisconsin was the most dangerous state for farm workers, with 501 killed in four years; and New York had 4M acci dental farm deaths. BARBS... by Baukhage Now that we can get 'em by the carton, a lot of us will go back to a pack a day and be satisfied. . . . The administration is approach ing the proposed labor ? manage ment - government conference with gloves on ? not boxing gloves, but f that is what they are afraid they f might need unless the animals are .tamed ki advance. Business Week predicts s boom by next summer. Remember '2> ? whet goes up comes down. Mesn while there msy be tough going. Which is snother good ergument for keeping those wsr bonds end buy ing more. ? ? ? The honeymoon msy be over in Washington but the bills ere just coining in to congress. Official Pearl Harbor Blame Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, upper right; Adm. Harold R. Stark, left; and Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short, lower right, shown on back ground of attack on Pearl Harbor, have been given the official blame ! for the unpreparedness of American forces when the Japs attacked the islands. General Marshall, also named, was declared not responsible by President Truman. Germans Try at Postwar Farming Complying with General Eisenhower's order of "harvest or starve," German farm people are utilizing anything and everything in order to harvest their crops for winter nsage. Here a farmer and his wife use a pair of oxen to draw their reaper, in the absence of power machinery, on a war-torn farm near Honad, Germany. *? , Siamese Twins Start Life Siamese twin (iris, delivered by their pudnother, were (Wen a food chance te live, althoufh physicians expressed denbt if they eoold be severed. The twins, born to Mrs. Miranda of CoMwater, Arts., a snbnrb of Phoenix, weifhed a total of t pounds ? ounces, and are almost Identical in also. Their condition seems to bo improvlny. War Chiefs Honored by France i Four Americas oflcera of Bye-star rank are abewn wearing their 1 new decorations after they had received the Grand Cross of the Legion I fro? ?*a- Charles de Gaulle. Left U right are: Adm. i WHH*m D.Leahy; Geo. George C. Marshall; Adm. Ernest King and Gen. ( H. H. Arnold. General do Gaulle conferred the honors in Washington. c General Wainwright Lt. Gen. Jonathan W. Wain wright, who commanded the American Forces tn the Philippines when Cor regidor surrendered, is shown after his release from Jap prison camp. Has Occupied Tokyo J LI. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, ( commanding general of the O. S. i j Jth army, who has been designated ( to ocenpy the Tokyo area. He has long been considered the most ex perienced jungle and Jap fighter in the Allied armies?and marked as a Jap hater. Old Mission Fiesta Reviving the romance and color till hospitality of the California of a century or more ago, the annual Sesta, Interrupted during the war years. Is being renewed at the San Oabriel mission, fourth of the Span ish missions built along El Camino Real. Discoverer of DDT Dr. Paul Mailer, who with Dr. Peal Laager, aow ta the United State*, care DDT, the miracle in lectielde, to the world. Be assert* that by proper methods an insects saa be controlled. (Mole?While Drew Pearson it on vaca tion, Secretary oi Agriculture Clinton P, ] Anderson contributes a guest column.) By CLINTON P. ANDERSON ' Secretary of Agriculture WASHINGTON. ? The first Sun lay after V-J Day, a friend came . by with an automobile to take my family and his for a drive into the :ountry to have dinner with another Friend. Nothing like that had hap pened in years. We were all de lighted at the chance to ride through :ountry lanes, to talk about the leight of the corn, the possibilities >f crops, and the probability that we vould enjoy meat for dinner. But as we started back into Wasti ng ton, we could not help but notice hat the roads were filling up. Therg vas a long line of traffic and many oiks drove by at speeds which ieemed reckless to us. They were lerhaps driving 40 or 45 miles an tour and we had become accus omed to the 35-mile an hour leisure y gait. When one speeding ear swirled past ns, I heard my wife murmnr, "My, what I wouldn't give to have gasoline rationing back." I began to wonder how many of he things that war had brought to " is as sacrifices or privations we ' vould soon come to appreciate as >lessings in disguise. I began to vonder how long it would be before >eople would sometimes sigh for ujme of the real advantages of the lays during the war when we all ived a little closer together, a little nore simply, and perhaps a little nore in the traditional Ameri :an pattern that had started this tountry on its way to becoming a preat nat'on. Real Values of Life. Do you remember back in the rears of the depression that Henry Vnsley out in Amarillo, Texas, vrote a book entitled, "I Like the depression?" Frankly, I liked his ittle book, because he told of the ilessings that had come to him with i reversal in his financial situation, le told of the discoveries that he lad made as the period of wild pros >erity passed and the long months of lepression set in. He told of the armers who had gone back to liv ng on their farms instead of living iff their farms. The war has done something to all of us. It made us appreciate some of the real values of life that many of us had lost sight of. We aD eomplained a little about the war, didn't we? We were a little disappointed when we found that the stocks of new ears were frozen, but we dis covered that the old car was a lot better and would ran a lot longer than we had thought. Car-Pool Neighbors. I remember my first experience with a car pool. We had two auto mobiles at our house; our next door neighbor had two automobiles at his place. We were not well acquaint ed, mostly because it wasn't neces sary, until the war came along, j Then my next door neighbor and I ; and two others, who heretofore had gone to our offices by separate means, found ourselves fused to gether into a car pool. We were ir revocably tied to each other. We had to rise at the same time in the morning, leave at the same hour for work, and return home together in the evening. I am sure that at first we all re sented a little the fact that we lost our freedom of action, but we gained a~great lesson in neighborli ness. We found out that the people who lived next to us might be just as interesting and attractive, just as pleasant and just as companionable as the people whom we had always known who lived down the street or across the city. Victory Garden Blessing. How many women improved their figures as they walked to market! And think what Victory gardens did for the men! Like Drew Pearson, I will perhaps be away from Washington when this column is printed, away on a short vacation. While I am gone, someone will be mowing my lawn. During the war I had to mow my own lawn, i couldn't find anyone interested in taking care of my par ticular little piece of property. And a strange thing happened: I found that I could mow it as well as any one else, that I could mow it quickly, and that I could learn with in a short time exactly how each particular section could be best mowed to develop the best cut of grass And I found out also that when I mowed it myself, I not only improved the lawn, I improved my own digestion. I'll miss that now that the war is over, because I'll tell myself that I'm too busy to do it when I can hire someone else for the job. I suppose that my wife will miss something, too, because she used to walk to market and carry her gro ceries back home in a basket. 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