Detroit evening times., 1945-09-24


DEAR MR.. HEARST:
nURING my recent trip to Europe l had delightful
~ 45-mnute private audience with His Holiness, Pope
Plus XII. l told His Holiness of the devastated cond
ton of Germany especially the large cities The Pope
replied to the effect that they could get word from
eastern Germany but that he understood conditions
in certain sections were pitiful indeed
| had fine interview with Cardinal Michael Faul
haber the only remaining cardinal Of Germany He is
a very sad man. Upon the occupancy of Munich by
the Americans he issued statement to the effect that
he was glad the Americans in Munich he would
cooperate fully with them until overt act
mitted and then he would be in his criticism
of the Americans he had always been of the Nazs
Cardinal Faulhaber refused to allow the American
Catholics to kiss his cardinals ring saying that there
was determination ban
WAS told on reliable authority that two wears ago
Il the Nazs ordered Cardinal Fauhaber to present him
self Tor arrest He replied that he would do the
morning at 10 a. Word was passed and accordingly
the next morning his emnence appeared on the steps
of the Frauen Cathedral clothed in the state robes of
ms office Twenty thousand people were present the
square Fhe Nazis were frightened and did not
him His Holiness spoke very highly of Cardinal Faul-
haber, saying that he man of special fortitude
CONDITIONS IN GERMANY ARE APPALLING.
Devastation is everywhere The Inter Den Linden.
which Americans are so familiar with is complete
wreck The Adon Hotel is of rubble The horses
are shot off the Brandenburg gates They were digging
up dead bodies in the Tergarten when there The
beautiful Dom Church is ruined as is the state
The university the kasers old palace and a matter
OF fact everything within radius of 10 miles of the
center of Berlin is completely demolished
IF OUR army avoid an epidemic this coming winter
they are almost superhuman. The sewerage systems
are broken as the water mans.-The is unfit
Tor drinking People living in the cellars of bombed
out buildings standing in line in food queues for mere
handful of food 1t is not unusual sight to see old
women drop on the streets of Berlin result of NAL
The Russians are spending money like drunken
sailors The Russian government is giving soldiers huge
quantities of German occupation marks which Incl
redeemabe for
per mark The ridiculous part of this asco is that we
printed the occupation money for the Allies but then the
Russians held out for the plates. Accordingly we as
usuai captuated and gave them duplicate set of dies
therefore, they grinding out occupation marks and
Systematically oong the country.
The Russians are pundering everything in Germany.
1t is thorough job. They remove the bathubs
toilets wash basins, doorknobs etc from every house
Our American generals tell me that thev are tearing IN
railroad tracks and taking the steel back to Russia
rails that are so necessary for the trains
for food supplies.
TTNHE Americans have zone in north Germany en-
bracng the port of Bremerhaven This American
occupation zone is known the Bremen enclave 1t
is 80 miles long and As miles wide The port of Bremen
haven will eventually be used as an American supply
port to feed and clohe the American occupation army
which is in south Germany
There is railroad which runs from Bremen south
to the American This railroad passes through
the British occupation and also traverses two and
seventeenth miles of the Russian occupied zone few
miles east of the city of kassel
The Russians put road block on the railroad for
ouunS American supply trains TO pass through their
two and seventeenth miles of occupied territory thereby
making the railroad useless.
had an afternoon with Gen. Montgomery Mont
gomery said he regards the coming months the battle
or the Wnter-that there 100000 displaced persons
Poles Czechs, Russians etc roaming the countryside
IN his zone which is in the Ruhr He said that with
demobzaton of the German soldiers he expected heavy
boodshed this winter when the d. Ps loot sabotage
and rape the German countryside and that naturally
was expected the Germans would band together with
knives and clubs for the protection of their homes
MONTGOMERY told all about the Normandy and
4VI African campaign tried hard get him to agree
to write his memoirs for He replied "If wrote my
memoirs, il would start another You cannot deal
with five nations and not have disagrecments publicly
think IT wonderful we all agreed did, especially
at Posdam
"NOn Rundstedt the best general | ever fought
against consider him far abler than Rommel. You
cannot talk of reparaons from Germany You
must think in terms of exports against future imports
We have twenty-five million people in the British occupa-
tion which is the Ruhr. They ordinarily
twelve million tons of food per year and produce eight
million. This winter the Germans will have to subsist
from their fat.
1T becomes extremely cold here with IL feet of
My the Ruhr is the manufacturing section
Eisenhower has the scenery"