European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes october need for new spirit fair riles East cited if Bonn arms inter zonal plan on troops told continued Page 1 with whats going on in the other turning to the world Mccoy said the fighting in Korea had not altered the communist threat u the Western the threat is still the situation is fundamentally the the High commissioner the fighting in Korea has thrust aside the revealing the sinister aspects of communism he the Mccoy is still the free world versus the slave despite the fact that 175 soviet divisions Are casting a pall Over the that the communists have launched a great propaganda Campaign and that they have declared a fifth column War Western the spirit of the West be still prevailing and will prevail if All of us keep on our Mccoy warns on cynicism he called on the resident officers to avoid becoming routinized and Gen Thomas Neucom told the conference that occupying forces had never had better relations with any occupied country than we have with the he said the increase in too strength would create sacrifices of including the the he obviously Wil need Mare he that the army would fill Barracks to a great a density As health Standard Handy stressed that the German must be made to understand tha the troops Are coming for their Protection and that sacrifices must Tai major deterrent he declared that the Force in Germany were a major deter rent against if War they will be the major bulwark in the physical de sense of the German people and the Peoples of Western the Neucom commander the most important stabilizing influence in Western Europe Anc Western Handy is the physical presence of the Amer ican sailors and i think this probably does More Good than All the International conferences or anything Handy called Western Germany the Frontier of the general disclosed that toe serious incident rate in Neucom is than 1 per one thousand troops per he is less than a comparable criminal incidents involving he constitute Only about on half of this Handy said he did not feel that the germans were getting As much information As they should on the Large scale de requisitioning of Ger Man property by the forces and other measures taken by Neucom to ease the occupation Load for the the general was one of four top tanking commanders who addressed the others were it Gen John can and rear adm John Navy commander in Eddy noted that the occupation emphasis had clanged from an army of occupation Tor an army guarding part of a very important he said the army Mission had changed to one of getting ourselves ready for com he disclosed that Many of the Liberal command urged by Poncet 9 Andre French High said today that if West Germany is reared the new German forces must be animated by a new this Newborn army should be neither trained nor commanded by the old Type of who Are raising their Heads again and conspiring he told a meeting of High commission resident he insisted the new command must be by younger generals who Are entirely devoted to the present regime and whose Outlook is at once sincerely democratic and to bring about a transformation in the present Mili tary in spirit which May All too readily flare up again in the a task which can not be accomplished within the space of a few Francoi Poncet conceded that the French government is holding Back on the Issue of rearming the Ger mans so that they can play their part in european favors More Freedom the emergence of a German armed even incorporated within a european army 10 times its represents a fact which is hard to he a Meas ure of this kind would entail serious repercussions and therefore de serves serious i May add that i sincerely Hope that the differences of opinion May be settled As soon As Poncet endorsed As the lesser of two risks the new Allied move to restore greater Freedom to occupied West in my some people in Good Faith believe that we Are run Ning a great risk in surrendering too Many freedoms to they fear that once the germans have extracted from us everything they May suddenly form an it is useless to deny this danger because it is not outside of pos the risk would be greater should we insist on hold ing a tight grip on refuse at Berlin exhibition visitors throng through one of the buildings at the Industrial exhibition in the British sector of photo to relax our controls and stubbornly consider her As an enemy without holding out any Hope of different warning that soviet Russia Wil never give up her attempts to grab at least by Western Germany and thus create a new satellite of Francois Poncet said if we wish to save we must organize our moral and mate rial resistance with increased efficiency and induce Federal Ger Many to turn its to the West and take her place in our that is Why All allies have a duty to give Back to Germany a greater degree of Freedom sooner than originally reinforcements soon to be in Germany will be Young the source of our in probably will be men who today Are just being called into the the Usa eur commander said these were times which Call for great none of the he Lack these referring to the changed Mission in urged the resident officers to accomplish their tasks More and More by example and and less and less y Fiat and he said the strength of the democracies was not As dependent n a Berlin air lift or1 a Landing t Inchon As it was on More Funda mental prosecution rests in court martial of col Cruikshank 9 prosecution rested today in the general court martial of it col Frank Cruikshank after presenting the testimony of several witnesses who admitted Blac marketing Large quantities of gasoline taken from the Darmstadt quartermaster de Cruikshank formerly was Darm Stadt sub Post Rudolf a German whole testified he disposed of Sev eral thousand receiving Marks witness repeats Story witnesses testified the army Gas amounting to about Gal was taken to an Eberstadt machine shop after being removed from the Darmstadt depot in Ger Man there the gasoline was held Pend ing its Sale by Korbel and other Friedrich a German furniture repairer and was recalled to the stand to repeat his Story of a conversation with Cruikshank during which he agreed to arrange for the Sale of Gallons of Mangold had a contract with the pm depot at the time to repair Billet in addition to the Cruikshank is accused of having Black marketed 300 pounds of Karl a German administrative assistant at the testified he ran Short of Cash while building himself a Home and asked Cruikshank for a Cruikshank he by suggesting he sell the Bunch testified he did keeping 400 representing the loan he had and turning 664 Marks Over to the the defense will open its Case Gen Eddy to open new yes Center in Heidelberg today 9 lit Gen m a it o n will open the new Heidelberg shopping Center to Morrow at 2 maj Gen Roy v chief of Neucom special will present the building to it will House the main Post Exchange and general offices and the Heidelberg military Post finance additional yes services in the building will include a shoe repair a merchandise repair Beauty Salon and Barber and tailor also in the building will be a laundry and dry cleaning Call a photo shop and Complete Fountain according to it col Frank hip Exchange opening of this new installation makes it possible to return seven requisitioned buildings to the Ger Man presentation of keys to the buildings will be made Dur ing the opening ceremonies by col to lord mayor Hugo of the american forces will broadcast the network us Mediterranean flagship visit Trieste 9 British Cruiser flagship of adm sir John commander of the British Fleet in the Meriter arrived Here fora Short visit Edelstein will be guest of British it Gen Terence military commander of the Anglo american zone of Trieste free Japan Rice crop heavy 9 agriculture department yesterday estimated japans 1950 rough Rice Harvest at one of the largest since world War reds unable to halt exodus to West 9 russian sector officials with anger As hordes of berliners continued to flow the Frontier into the British for a glimpse of the Industrial and the free tense Peoples police1 feeble efforts to shoo them Back at 1 some but the Frontier a Loo Long and the police too one observer said the Over there Are really beside they dont want the peo pfc to see the fair because it illustrate in part the Way the outside Zorij they dont want people to knot about anything but the the dont want them getting any idtat1 the East government has car it wants the East Berliner us stay in Shcier j array Parade i the communist Bosses Wen Parlick Lurly perturbed sunday Over the fact that during the after Nock the Kasl berliners would see Thi i army guard Parade on grounds at berlins famed it ii a background of America gangster j Well before noon Mart than East berliners in the sunday est More of them showed up saturday to the disgust of their politick and Many of them Prai Iti Marshall the America building at the saturdays exodus to the was considered a special insult tip g the East German and communism in for it we the first anniversary of the Ca Monist East German government during Franz chairman of the social socratic party of West cognized a party of East berliners in the he Cor ailed got on a platform and shouted you got the Day off fan Wilhelm Pieck president of to East German state to see w Industrial your visit show that you would prefer a free they n b i h sete Al casualty list of issued for Korea 9 new list identifying America casualties in single list Yel release of by the defense department Yeste it was presumed the new list it fleets the casualties in the Grot offensive started by the into landings the list Namts 219 30 fatally m 48 injured and 73 publisher Dies 9 adj William Hale publisher i he Taunton daily Gazette for last 51 years and athletics has prominent and Arafat or held warned on Korea s 0 or b i St i in co to in we pm so m 9 aus Thalia owned e n g 1 i s language daily Japan news said that three months before the reds Crosse the South korean americas de sense department was told when the invasion would the Japan news said this information was supplied Washington by maj Gen Charles Gen Douglas Mac Arthurs assistant chief of in response to an in Quiry by United said the article in the Japan news was substantially the newspaper said Willoughby told Washington also that North korean communists had if divisions ready for the Washington has never announced thai these accurate forecasts of invasion were in their files All the the Japan news were written by Mai Gen Gen Macarthy intelligence on March 10 he dispatched i i message saying report Receil that Peoples army will invade South Korea in the invasion began on june in this he said his agents covered that when the chinese ended five divisions of North 1 reans who had fought with chinese communists returned their own they were split among the of the Norin korean unite so every company had some of Well trained they provided Moat of officer and officers for the korean Vasion c
