Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-23
nude WASHINGTON
Cermony's Post-Wor Fote
Still ! on Allied Problem
Au'obohn Proved Biggest
Boomerang Of Whole War.
Special to Central Press

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s'wAsH1NGToN -Cernnanys post war fate has become the source
Of great concern in Allied circles in Washington ) In tact. some
Observers openly express belief that unless Britain. Russia and the
United States soon agree Oh an interim program for Ge1manys
reconstruction peace IN Europe may be seriously delayed
orahIe end. that there is no definite. .clear-cut policy on Germanys
Allied honbngs. frankly tell Allied officials they can
No cLeor resume production immediately perhaps for
~ World War III If they aren't closely watched.
'"'" But. thus far, the Allies have not settled on the
Germany economic plan for postwar, Germany = Russia is
pubncly o II record with demands for German slave
labor and a 'vgilant check on all German industry But Britain and
the United States are stu silent
. ONE OF H1T1ERs GREATEST BENEFAcT1oNs to Germany
the dying days of the Third Reich.
Constructed in the nid-193os for the not TOO subtle purpose Of
insufins complete mobility for the mechanical .Wehrmacht, these
highways were speedily used in the early 1e4os when the German
Army invaded France and the low countries.
These~nbbons of concrete criss-crossing the Reich in all direc-
tions are now filled by Allied tanks and military trucks paced by
daiting jeeps for an almost continuous mechanical parade Their
capture cut off the main forces of the German defenders and forced
them to take cover on secondary loads7
8 GERMAN ATROCITIES INVOLVING AMERICAN prisoners of
"a meanwhile are going to be avenged.
The great number of recent news stories about savage mis,reat.
nent of American troops n the Reich rare being carefully noted by
the United States government
Germans in authority at prison camps and prison hospitals will be-
called to account for such horrors as forced marches, beatings'
starvation and similar crueltes in violation of accepted rules Of
warfare.
Every account is read by the War Crimes office in Washington"
established last autumn by the Army. Navy and State Department.
The Office already has a long list of names of German and Japanese
balballans and the new crop Of at'octy stories is adding to the list.
Whenever a nw intlgnity is uncovered, men are put at work
interviewing survivors,, taking afhdavts and getting the names Of
enemy personnel responsible.
. DURING THE WAR, Congress has been in the habit Of getting
into a Legislative jam in the late spring This year
promises to be no exception Conoress
The reason the jam develops is that there are a
number of deadlne bills that have to be passed in "' W
the late spring Schedule
An the regular appropriation bills have to be
passed by June SO. the last day of the fiscal year. and bills have to-
be passed renewing major wartime powers. many of which expire
each year in the late spring
This year, although the session is three months old. Congress still
has to pass nearly all the major appropriation bills. And more
than the usual number of wartime laws expire yUp to this point
little progress has been made on these bills except on those Of q
less controversial nature.