The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-22

mas SIuQleQ ana uSeQ every 1dClllty he could to know them better. This in itself is hopeful sign, for when a man admits he doesn't know all the answers he is making an intelli- gent approach to his job, and not one dictated by emotional and blind prejudices.
 If any man is entitled to hate the Germans and want to see them crushed ruthlessly, it is Eisenhower.
 For the members of the 18th s. S. KorpS, who killed captured Amer Ican prisoners in cold blood during the Battle of the Bulge, he will show no mercy.
 He regards every Nazi Storm Trooper as a potential war criminal at least putting the burden of proof of innocence on the accused. WANTS GENERAL STAFF
 SEGREGATED
 He would utterly destroy the Ger man General Staff. How, he is not sure. But he mentions the possibil- ity of rounding up every German officer with general staff training, segregating the whole lot of them, destroying all their archives.
 He is convinced the Germans de- liberately starved American prison CTS.
 The first German murder factory he saw made him madder than he has ever been in hi life.
 And yet he says simply, Peace can't be built on hate"
 He divides the German problem into two phases.
 First is the emergency problem. The cities of Germany are destroyed beyond everything he has ever seen. Berlin is London multiplied 100 times Transportation is dislocated. The German face actual starvation.
 The job is to get the German To- cal communities started again. To screen the people. To prepare case history on every one. To find the anti-Nazis of the neutrals and make them responsible for policing the country and getting labor started on the farms
 The problem of getting displaced persons back to their homelands is well along Already two million French and Russian slave laborerS have been liberated and 100000 Bri- tish and Americans held as pri- soners- -of-War have been freed
 This highly necessary screening of every individual is the reason be- hind General Eisenhower order that American soldiers must not be permitted to fraternize with the Ger man people. It must continue in force, he says, until every last ele- ment of Nazism is eliminated How long this will require he cannot esti- mate. But he is determined to find every war criminal and not let a single one escape
 This is the only way" he says, ito show the German people that crime does not pay
 TOMORROW'S GERMANY
 ANOTHER JOB
 The second phase of General Eis- enhoWer's new job is the long-range problem of Germany's future. This is the political problem where policy is determined by statesmen and where men like Eisenhower become the mere executors of their govern mentS. This is the period where the mistakes can be made.
 General Eisenhower will probably have more free advice on this phase of his job than he had from all the armchair strategists who tried to tell him how to win the fighting war. But he won, the fighting war in spite of all the long-range ex- porting from the amateurs at home. Acting as he talked in Washington, he can be trusted with full author ity on the postwar job in Germany if his hands are not tied and his style is not cramped by the politi- clans. How long his new job will last how long an American Army of Occupation must remain in Ger many, he does not know.