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Military government weekly information bulletin
Number 57 (September 1946)
German reactions, pp. 24-25
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U AMLX& Food Situation Emphasized By US Zone Licensed Press Food stories comprised the major German news during the week of 11-18 August, ac- cording to the weekly analysis of the Ger- man press by the Office of the Director of Information Control, OMGUS. The increase in the bread ration, the arrival of CARE packages, the record harvest in the United States, follow-up stories on the World Food Conference and UNRRA were widely dis- played. Editorial expressions concerningfoodwere of a more critical tone. The Fuldaer Volks- zeitung said, "There can be no doubt that the cause of the present disinclination to work and of the present apathy regarding questions of economic and political recon- struction can be found in the lack of suffi- cient food." Der Morgen (Mannheim) like- wise remarked that the still declining work- ing morale cannot be raised without finding a possibility "of granting participation in the use of production to those who really work." * * * While the Paris Peace Conference con- tinued prominently in the news columns, there was little editorial comment. The Fraenkische Landeszeitung (Ansbach), in deploring by implication the fact that Ger- many has no representation at the con- ference, stressed, "A completely disarmed but economically strong and united Germany is a more significant factor in world politics than the Germany would have been which might have concluded the war with the checkmate-peace hoped for by Goering and his consorts. Conquests do not make a people strong." * * * In connection with special attention given by all newspapers in the US Zone to atomic energy and the Baruch report to UN, the Wetzlarer lS saying "I he Dniac seitLer~1e forces of nature can be controlled for the salvation of man only if they receive their impulses from moral considerations .... In- voluntarily the word of Rabindranath Tagore occur to us when he was proudly shown all the technical attainments during his European visit and asked his opinion about them. That was in 1920. He answered with the apparently confusing sentence: 'The machines will destroy you.' Would you laugh proudly and disbelievingly to- day?" * * * "War turns today against its instigators," declared a Fraenkische Landeszeitung edi- torial commenting on the Nuremberg trials. "Hitherto a few have started the wars and many fought them. Many died and a few lived and harvested not seldom fame, wealth and honor. If war criminals come before the bar of justice not only in the case of Germany, if these methods are applied in the future to war criminals of other nations, this circumstance might pen up the warlike spirit of all responsible statesmen ... and for this reason there must be above the nations a permanent Center of Law which will maintain the peace under all circums- tances." * * * The anniversary of the Weimar Consti- tution was noted in a feature article in the Stuttgarter Zeitung which pointed out that the constitution was given to a people unused to democracy and it was unjust to blame democracy for the eventual fate of the constitution. The article added: "We hope the experiences of the 14 years under the Weimar Constitution and the 12 years without it will be utilized in the creation of the new constitutions." In addition to the Peace Conference, the German press published accounts of leading 24 'I" mkl;_ - UMMMMUK--tolow 4 J
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