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900 persons who are stateless or 9th.
erwise unable to return to theil
homes.
Most German criticism, the Amer.
lean military governor said. coulc
be traced to general feeling Of
self-pity on the part of the Ger
mans, who irrationally expected the
Allies must take care of them"
Anti-Nazis Hard to Find.
: While the exceptionally milo
winter has enabled Allied author.
tiles to hold epidemics in check, the
general said, "the continued absence
Of public unrest doubtless results
at least in part, from ability of the
authorities to maintain basic fooc
rations at an adequate minimum
level"
The report conceded that the
Americans were having difficulty in
finding true anti-Nazis to replace
ousted Nazis, saying less than / pei
cent of the Germans investigated
in the United States zone. showed
definite evidence of anti-Nazi &C
tivity"
Gen. McNarney said. however
that the first phase of disqualification
had been completed.
More than 1000 industrial plants
were operating in the zone at the
end of the year, the commander
reported, but the output was only
about 10 to IL per cent of current
capacity. Fifty-three per cent OF
the plants were in the consumer
goods class.
Transportation Is still the main
bottleneck, especially in the dis
tribution of coal, the report showed
Production of hard coal in Germany
Appropriated 4,80o, 900 tons month
during the last quarter. This was
only ~ per cent of the 1888 average
Internal Debt Staggering.
Since the Allied occupation 4,375,-
900 tons of solid fuels have been
to six Western European
countries, a third of it to France
a fourth to Belgium and the re-
to Holland, Luxembourg
Denmark and Norway.
The report warned that the stag
gering internal debt-30o, 600, 0O0, 00C
reichsmarks, involving annual in
terest payments of 1900, 000, 00C
r c h m r ks - and inflationary
money supplies still were danger.
GUS elements in the field of finance
(The reichsmark is equivalent tt
about 10 cents at the present mill.
tary rate of exchange)
The number of displaced person.
in the American zone increased BY
Is per cent during December, o.
II 900 persons, the report said, while
repatriation hit a new low-1l, 00t
for the month.
At the end of the year the Amer.
lean zone was providing care fol
Sill 900 displaced persons and alto.
gether in the American, British anc
French zones there are still about
900, 900 displaced persons, of whom
about 100000 are Polish.
Early Solution Urgent.
Referring to the problem of $50, 00e
stateleSs and nonrepatriable persons
now on American hands, Gen. Nc
Narney said that during December
none of these was resettled in Ger.
many and added:
"An early solution of this prob.
lem by an intergovernmental COM
mittee on refugees or by other inter-
governmental action is urgent. In
this group are some who palpably
cannot be resettled in Germany and
must, there, await intergovern-
mental decisions.
"As prescribed at present, immi-
grafton laws are insufficient. Furth-
ermore, In order to qualify as an
immigrant, a person must be able
to establish his nationality"
The report pointed out that the
problem was becoming aggravated
by increased infiltrations into the
American zone -including Jews
coming from Poland and from other
zones in Germany.