Evening star., 1943-04-04
Allies Face Stupendous Task
Unscrambling Postwar Egg
Must Decide Who Shall Rule Freed Nations.
Administer Axis Affairs and How Best
to Bring Rehabilitation
By Carl C.. Cranm er,
Associated Press Writer.

Rumania. The Atlantic Charter SAYS the
people shall choose.
In Germany. the Allies will have to
find group or leader with the necessary
wisdom and following to organize a lib
eral, democratic government, or they
will have to clamp on an Allied military
government. institute an Allied COM
mission government or adopt some other
solution.
An Italian "Darlan."
In Italy there may be an opportunity
for repetition of the Darlan controversy
that followed the Allied landings in
North Africa, with some italian Fascist
who processes to have reformed seeking
to take over from Mussolini.
2. Re-education. The germ of Fascism
has been planted in the minds of whole
generation by Nazi educate and the
Nazis have endeavored to breed it into
the next generation and spread it to all
Europe. Even the teachers of the future
have been exposed to it. No one can be
sure how well they have succeeded in
some of the occupied countries. On
both sides of the Atlantic it has been
proposed that one postwar project will
be the re-education of Germany. But
occupation authorities will have to do
something about education at once, and
apparently there will not even be any &C
ceptable textbooks available in Germany.
3. Economics. 1t seems probable that
the imitation potential of Europe has
been built up to terrific voltage as a
result OF preWar and war debts and war
swollen currencies. What value to place
on the mark, the franc, the lira, ETC.;
what measures to take to re-establish
credit and get trade going will be one
of the headaches of the economic experts
attached to the occupation authorities.
4. Rellef. Much of Europe's livestock
has been butchered Sections of French
railroads probably will be found in Rus
sia or Poland. The local Allied relief ad-
mlnistrator probably will discover that
the dynamos and machines of the local
factory which could give employment
have been scattered from one end of
Europe to the other, if not DESTROYED.
Ihere Will be no stocks of raw materials.
Rehabilitation Vital
The problem of importing canned milk
and food expands therefore into prob
lem OF supplying seed, fertilizer, breed
ing stock, factory machinery, raw ma
terlals
The difficulty of accumulating stocks
of relief food is obvious when the United
States is already on rations Re-equip-
ment of local European factories will be
difficult with American industry still on
war basis. And presumably, if the
Allied timetable holds. the task will come
while War still RACES with Japan.
5. Refugees. The transportation angle
of the refugee problem alone may be
staggering. Hundreds of thousands who
have been forcibly transplanted by Hit
Ter, who fled from his armies or escaped
from his rule will be wanting to get back
to their homes. Those satisfied to stay
where they are will want to be joined by
their families or friends. Robbed of
chattels and capital, untold thousands
will want to emigrate.
The Allied powers may have to plan
some ambitious resettlement schemes in
less crowded parts of the world such as
were sketchily attempted before the war.
6. Prisoners. Cleaning out the prisons
and concentration camps will not be just
case of simply walking up to the gates
and turning the locks. Many victims
Of years of imprisonment will be in such
state of physical and mental disinte-
grafton that they will be unfit as bread
winners even if they find their families
7. Revenge. The Allied governments
have attempted to steer the natural de-
sire for revenge of the occupied peoples