European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 05, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes Friday March 5, Bresnahan retiring May Berry taking Post Bremerhaven March 4 is a Sci. Gen. Thomas f. Bresnahan commanding general of the Bre Pae Haven port of embarkation for tie last year is returning to the . For retirement it was an bounced her today. Bresnahan will be succeeded by col. Hugh t. Mayberry. Present be chief of staff. A Veteran of world War i Bres a Han came overseas in this War in 1945 As commanding general of the Pise intermediate Section theater service forces european theater in Hehns France. He served there until january 1946 when he was made commanding general of the Continental base Section at bad nauheim. He took charge of be on march15th last year. From april 16 to june 15 of 1947. Bresnahan also served As Deputy director of serv ice of. Supply and procurement Neucom. Bresnahan has been awarded the distinguished service Cross the legion of Merit purple heart wit Cluster legion of Honor and other u. S. And foreign decorations. Mayberry wartime brigadier Gen eral from october 1942 to March 1946 is a Veteran of world War i. Brig. Gen. Bresnahan. Leaving be command he served overseas in this War As assistant division commander of the 99th div. After a year s duty in the u. S. He was reassigned to u. S. Forces european theater As lbs assistant chief of staff. He became by chief of staff in May of last year. Greece bares sabotage plots Athens March 4 up War minister George Stratos disclosed today amid a. Continuing Roundup of suspects that he had unearthed Broad communist sabotage plots which even included attacks on the russian and yugoslav legation buildings Here. He indicated the legation attacks were designed As provocative acts k stir a Hornet s nest of reaction against Greece by those countries. A Roundup now in its third Day netted police 80 More arrests. Stratos said he found a document revealing the plans for attacks on the legation and sent it to the up fisc order ministry. He said reinforced guards May be put at both places which Are not far from the american embassy and Royal Palace. Bachmai. Continued from Page 1 pact Compromise on Austria offered London March 4 a the big three Western Powers at a meeting of the foreign ministers deputies today told Russia they severe willing to Compromise on an austrian peace Britain France and the . Made it Plain they will not meet rus Sia s figures Lor settling soviet claims on former German property in Austria the main Point at is three Powers did not say exactly How far they would go in compromising. A British official observer at the meeting reported the Western Power Compromise offer had the effect of keeping the Ball in yugoslavs try 5 priests on smuggling charges Belgrade March 4 a yugoslav authorities said today Tucey Are frying five priests in the yugoslav zone of the free territory Trieste on charges of smuggling. An announcement Here said the priests were appearing before the country court in Bunje and that one Artiom they failed to identify was being tried in absent a. All the accused except Don Pisa Alfonso pleaded not guilty to charges of smuggling rationed foods and More than 1,000,000 italian and. Yugoslav lire by raw boat into services of an attorney immediately after his arrest. 3taking statements from Bach Mann under duress. 4acting in such a manner As to terrify an employee of Bach Mann s attorney so that the employee was afraid to testify at the trial. 5placing the accused in solitary confinement without sufficient reason. Sis testimony discounted Bernstein ordered stricken from the record signed confessions Bachmai had made to Sis agents last october. The court is of the opinion these statements were made under duress he said. The charges upon which Bach Mann was found guilty All Deal with illegal Tom actions in military payment certificates. Bachmann thanks judge obviously surprised and nearly overcome by the realization that he would not go to jail Bachmann went later to the judge s Chambers and said i thank you from the Bottom of my feel you have suffered enough already Beinstein told him. In the course of his 16-Page, typewritten analysis and opinion believed to be the longest decision Ever rendered in military govern ment court Here Bernstein Dis qualified himself from sitting in the forthcoming trial of mrs. Ann Bachmann. France to hold 47 draftees Paris March 4 up Pierre Henry Teitgen minister of armed forces announced to the French National Assembly today that the first contingent of the class of 1947 of French army draftees will be retained under the colors until july15. 1948. Horthy claims Hitler tricked him into War by Julia Edwards staff correspondent Nurnberg March 4 is adm. Nicholas Horthy testified Here to Day that Adolf Hitler got him to bring Hungary into the War on the Side of the Axis by a false bomb ing attack and finally deposed him for seeking an armistice nth the soviet Union. The 79-year-old former Regent of Hungary told his Story in open court for the first time when he appeared As a prosecution witness in the War crimes trial of 21 top nazi ministers and diplomats. named the defendant Edmund Veesenmeyer nazi plenipotentiary in Hungary As head Man Over Gestapo and is agents who had been ordered in 1944. To round up jews in Hungary for slave labor and death in Germany. Deportations stopped temporarily after he protested Horthy said but later were lost in 1941 Horthy said he Jost his. Sovereignty in 1944 when German troops occupied the country. J defense attorneys Cross examined Horthy for two hours and asked repeatedly if he knew of anti jewish acts in Hungary prior to 1944. But Horthy said he did not remember. As his parting shot defense counsel Karl Doetzer demanded do you know that the hungarian government lists you As War Crimi Nal number one no. That is not known to me Horthy replied calmly. Also under Cross examination. Horthy said Hitler first asked him to declare War against the soviet Union and he refused to make an unprovoked attack. Two hungarian cities then were bombed by russian planes and Hungary entered the War he i now am fully convinced that Hitler s men were in those planes Horthy declared. In action Dueon Zion Force continued from Page 1 i try North of Jerusalem was wiped out today in an ambush. Arabs later led British troops to their 17 bodies stripped of arms and patrol followed by a second which escaped presumably sought to Cut the Jerusalem ram Allah All Arab Highway in a return blow for the dynamite no of a. Bridge by arabs and Convoy attacks which Cut the Only jewish route from Here to Tel Aviv. ? Arab Force reported heading for Palestine Damascus March 4 a Fawzi Kakuji commander of Theara Peoples army Ancl a hand picked Headquarters company in full combat equipment moved to Ward Palestine this afternoon. The con of led by five Sten gun carrying motorcyclists and two jeeps was last seen roaring South Ward 20 Miles North of Tow Palestine Frontier. The Headquarters move began a few meniates after the adjournment this morning of a Long conference of the Arab league committee on Palestine. Argentina Chile Pla joint Antarctic defense of n 37 c chilean president v id Al a and his daughter Silvia to Pott sober Iii to claim for Chile sectors of the Antarctic. _4 strife seen in red Advance continued from Page 1 chief of staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek during the War did not confine his views to China however. Referring to the communist coup in Czechoslovakia he declared this vast movement which has been successful in Poland and now Czechoslovakia and which bid sir to be equally successful in Finland is sweeping Down from the North. And if we in Ameri Ca intend to put a Stop to that we cannot do it entirely with economic said the world is now full of Power vacuums be cause of the defeat of some of the major Powers during the War. These vacuums must big filled he declared or. Unfriendly Power May move in Buenos Aires March 4 a Argentine foreign minister Juav Ramuglia announced today that Argentina and Chile would make Public a joint statement outlining their plans for the Protection and defense of 4he in right in the ant arctic.",". The declaration will be signed by chilean foreign minister Vergara Donoso and Pascual Larosa Secre tary to the Argentine delegation at the inter american conference in Bogota dispatch from the chilean Cor Yette Covadonga said that she the Tanker Renca iia had left South Shetland ending Chile s 1 Antarctic expedition. Thirteen a Are left Manning bases at or wich islands and Grahame is Winch the chileans Call o hug Ujj land. -., British ambassador John be had. What was officially Deac Rij a a talk on the a Arctic situation with preside Gabriel Gonzalez Videla of cd details of their conversation not disclosed. Michael continued rom Page 1 abdication was imposed by a government installed and maintained in Power by a foreign his proclamation said in part at the present moment it is no longer necessary to insist upon shielding the circumstances and causes of certain political events the motives of profound political chances imposed on the Small states of Eastern Europe already Are too Well known. So far As Romania is concerned i want to Avail myself of this Opportunity personally to confirm the facts As they happened. On the morning of dec. 30,1947 Premier Petru Groza and members of the romanian Cabinet presented me with the text of my abdication urging me to sigh at once. These men came to the Royal Palace after it had been surrounded by armed informed me they would hold me responsible for bloodshed which would follow As a Conse Quence of instructions already is sued by them in Case i did not sign within the time limit. This government has violated International pledges binding them to respect the political Freedom of the romanian people. In these circumstances i do not consider myself bound in any Way by this act imposed upon pact draft given5-Power Parley continued from Page 1 Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg Are considering an Alliance of Western. European countries. Bidault walkout protests reds tactics in Assembly Paris March 4 up foreign minister Georges Bidault walked angrily out of the French National Assembly tonight in protect against communist tactics during a debate on foreign affairs. Bidault in a session marked by communist criticism of the govern ment s foreign policies left the government Bench after he complained a communist Deputy was injecting a matter in toe debase not on the den1 ban on paper Prague March 4 up 1 ministry of information Ankouni today no foreign newspaper periodical had been banned Reed in Czechoslovakia and that Previn announcements to the contrary w in error. 3 a ministry spokesman sex Cerii four czechoslovak language Public tons printed in the u. S. Which been banned some time ago ? said Many of the 27 Lotfi suspended As a temporary me ure were now again available government bookstores. The Spok Man added that three visa granted today to foreign Cor Spon dents and that clearances w being made in each Case individual merits. N More czech envoys 1 quit posts in protest 4 by the associated pres three ambassadors have Shuff their disapproval of the new regime 6y resigning. The latest envoy who is in wifi to continue under the new gov i ment is Gen. Serge Inger am Esador to the Netherlands Btij resignation was announced in morning. His action follows in taken by the ministers in Waingort and Ottawa. I. " Ford flies to Denmark after talk with Clay Berlin March 4 Aphea Ford ii who is touring Europe inspect properties of the f motor co., left by air today \ Copenhagen. This morning Ford conferred w Gen. Lucius d. Clay u. S. Kilifi governor on economic condition Gernian where Ford s chief erty is the Cologne Plant. Wiesbaden Heidelberg to gets sat Homes file stars and stripes will in t aug rate Home delivery ser of ? of the newspaper in wies Badyl 1 and Heidelberg on March 20 j Wiesbaden subscribers wishing i the service should Call wies Baden 8849 or Frankfurt 3366it Heidelberg subscriptions Mav i obtained by calling a de a a c Clit we s p m it Iasi w m the of e 1 i Asci for a Erth to i w
