The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-25
MARSHALL URGES
CUT IN FORCES
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Der OF troops needed to police Ger
many from July 1 onward.
The Control council also would
report on the number of troops
needed after July 1, 1S48-thus
|foreshadowing a further reduction
at that time.
Marshall's bill of rights for all
Germans, which he wants put in
the federal and all state constitu-
tons, provides:
Freedom Of religion, speech and
assembly.
Freedom from search, seizure
and arbitrary arrest.
Freedom of political action for
recognized political parties.
Freedom of action for trade I'M
ions.
Freedom of circulation Of in
formation and ideas, to be limited
only by the needs of military
security.
Freedom OF movement of all
persons and goods all over Ger
many.
In another conference develop
ment Russia, at a meeting Of the
Big Four deputies for Austria, de-
manded that Yugoslavia be heard
on it's claims for $3.50, 600, 900 rep
arations despite the fact that
it was agreed at the Potsdam
conference that Austria should not
be asked to pay any war damages.
Russia at the same meeting re-
fused to abandon the possibility
that it might make a claim against
Austria for an estimated 800, 900, 900
in n%ow-defunct allied occupation
currency. This possible claim
arises over a part of the occupa-
ton currency which was called
recently and declared to be no
longer legal tender.
Russia holds about nine-tenths
of this currency which is still out
standing. The United States fears,
if she makes a claim for it,
Austria will face a further threat
of initiation.
Gen. Marshall's troop proposal
was a new step in the American
attempt to get the number Of allied
occupation troops in Germany and
Austria, and the number of Rus
sian occupation troops in other
countries, reduced to an absolute
minimum.
The new American proposal
means an abandonment, for the
moment at least, of the big plan
former Secretary of State James
F. Byrnes put before the Big -Four
Foreign ministers in New York.
Byrnes asked that by April la
week from today-allied troops in
be reduced to 200, DOC
for Russia, 140, 900 each for the
United States and Great Britain
and 5000 for France. He asked
a limit of 10000 troops each for
the four occupying powers in Aus
tria. Russia would have kept only
20, 200 troops in Poland and 5000
each in Hungary and Romania.
Further the number of occupa-
ton troops in all countries where
they remained in Europe would
have been subject to another re.
duction of 25 to 1918 per cent by
April !, 1913.
Byrnes in New York and
Marshall here failed to get the con-
sent of Russian Foreign Commits
sar Viacheslav Molotov to consider
this plan and Marshall, bowling to
the inevitable, started on a new
proposition.
Marshall named no numbers and
included only Germany, leaving il
entirely up to the Allied Control
council to work out the strength
necessary to maintain the occupa-
ltion.
Marshall's paper on compensa-
ton of UN citizens for property
taken from Germany as war spoils
provides that the deputies submit
Ia report at the next Big -Four
meeting.
Marshall specified that in nc
case should compensation be con-
sldered when the property IN
question represented investments
IN German enterprises devoted
entirely to war production.
Big -Four plenary sessions, in re-
cess since Saturday, will be re.
stunned tomorrow when the Foreign
Ministers consider a report by a
special committee on points OF
agreement and disagreement re-
gardlng problems raised so far.
Tomorrow's meeting will open
the third week of plenary sessions.
1t finds the United States and
Britain united as never before in
postwar conferences on basic
foreign policy.