Page View
Military government weekly information bulletin
Number 62 (October 1946)
German reactions, p. 17
PDF (490.2 KB)
Page 17
- - w l -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~t w - Zone Licensed Newspapers Emphasizing Youth Activities The 40 US-licensed newspapers, with a total circulation of nearly 4,000,000 average more than two items in each issue on youth activities. All newspapers publishing feuilleton supplements devote at least an entire page to reports of youth activities and reorientation material. Die Neue Zeitung, US-published Zone newspaper with a cir- culation of approximately 1,500,000, has a special advisor on youth problems in order to increase the amount of material for youth. * * * America's foreign policy dominated the top news in the licensed newspapers in the US Zone for the third successive week, ac- cording to the press analysis of the Office of the Director of Information Control, OMGUS, for the week 15-22 September. Centering on the New York speech of Secre- tary of Commerce Wallace, the stories were handled cautiously at first but developments focused more attention on the American position. Editorial comment was sparse but news handling indicated favoritism of editors for Secretary of State Byrnes. The Weser Kurier (Bremen) said: "In recent months, voices have arisen which warned against overestimating the foreign political unanimity of the United States. The isolationists are not yet dead, they said., and it now becomes clear through the speech of Commerce Secretary Wallace in New York that these opponents of the official American policy not only exist but are resolved to take the offensive.... If America should really withdraw to its own continent, the inevitable result would be a new bloc-build- ing in Europe.... To us Germans it will seem as though the unity program of the nation as presented so emphatically by (See- retary) Byrnes sy] of peace." In discussing the One World idea advocat- ed by Secretary Byrnes as against Mr. Wal- lace's "Two Worlds," the Hessische Nach- richten (Kassel) said "American isolationism, which was buried by America's entry into the war in 1941 ... appears resurrected. . . . A recognition of a division of the world and the allocation of spheres of influence for both great powers might provide a re- lease in the tension in the present situation. But was not Munich a textbook example that such a release of tension means only post- ponement? The policy of the Foreign Min- ister (Byrnes), which might have seemed to have been disavowed temporarily, has emerged from the crisis strengthened." The Badische Neueste Nachrichten (Karls- ruhe) commented: "The anxious doubts as to whether the Wallace speech represents a change in USA policy toward Germany and Europe and disavows (Secretary) Byrnes, have been allayed by the statements of (President) Truman. which represent not only a triumph for (Mr.) Byrnes, but a triumph of reason. With (Mr.) Truman's demand that (Mr.) Wallace resign and the subsequent withdrawal of the American Commerce Minister the last doubt has been removed." * * * In an attack on rumors concerning food, the Suedost Kurier (Bad Reichenhall) said: "For quite a while rumors have been cir- culating in Bavaria which contended that butter and other foodstuffs had been sent to America through black market means. It is supposed that these rumors constitute prop- aganda of former Nazis. The press office of the Bavarian Minister of Agriculture in- forms the Suedost Kurier that these rumors have no basis whatsoever." 17 -F--r he I 0
As a work of the United States government, this material is in the public domain.| For information on re-use see: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Copyright