European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Germany s last fuehrer by Cay Brockdorff up staff writer Ryphe old Man greets visitors to his j. Hamburg Germany Home with the stiff formality to be expected of one who served 40 years As a German naval officer first under Kaiser old pm in world War i. Then under Adolf Hitler in my my 73, Karl Dollte now h a Hamburg Petitioner. Formed War so slightly h in otters us Bud. By hair is manned and White Butte flin Rej to this we the Lut Germany the Man w  of Nisi o took Adolf he who at or cd of Ottar. Own hand to a Berlin. U Donetti had world War n to fight Over Wain and bad the final a so of conduct of the War a would  Ocean the Ossi Imse on Overill strategy should have been to Girt priority tothe fight in the augue and to corresponding Arma ment. But German sea warfare Hudnot priority. We should not have risked War with Britain unarmed for sea warfare As we were. Hitler failed to see the strategic importance of these. My life is now in the past he says and his surroundings reflect it. So do his remarks which avoid discussing the present. One part of the past also goes unspoken the 10 years Doenitz spent Iberlin s Spandau prison. After his Brief Rule As fuehrer week he was taken prisoner and placed on trial at Nuernberg with theother nazi War criminals. He was convicted of crimes against peace an crimes of War. He was charged among other things with sanctioning the Mur Der of jews and communists. Doenitz was born in Mecklenburg in188j and joined the Imperial German Navy in 1813. He served through Mostof the first world War As a a boat com Mander until he was captured by the British in ims. Between wars he devoted himself to a study of undersea warfare and Early in Hitler s Rise joined the and Zaparty. During the l�3fls, he helped direct the secret construction of a boat sin contravention of the world War i peace treaty. By War s outbreak in l�3t,he was commander in chief of a a boat flotilla and Hitler gave him the ran of rear Admiral. Tie developed the system of u-boat11. Attacks in packs leading to his Wolf pack Nick Nam. His such Essen Fht him promotion to full Admiral to 1m1 and to in. Hitler made him grand Admiral and commander in chief of the German Navy. In his succession of Hitler on May 1.ims, he addressed the German people Over the Hamburg radio one of the few radio stations then still in Nad hands. Seven Days later nazi Germany sur rendered unconditionally. Doenitz now la an old age  lives comfortably if no lavishly on a regulation government pension of bout u40 Marks $j10 a month. Doe note helps keep himself in trimby walking. His is a familiar lonely figure trudging Over the Windy Plai Sneir his Home. Rarely does he have a companion. He fathered two sons both were killed in world War n. As was his daughter s husband a a boat command it is the past that is his most constant companion. I am fully informed Only of the past he says. It is a special past. 9 s Goren on Bridge neither vulnerable. South if twp a Bast jul them in Booth West North but if 4 i Passi put pus put opening Lead King of 4. A Tho Bast strategy to fending Ica tast sooth be Diamond contract we soundly conceived Tat impeccably executed toe latter was tuned inon la Ami wave length and Bast s efforts went for  opened the King of Spades against South s five la mood contract and East promptly overtook with Bistos. In View of us partner s jump Overall. U seemed  Bop rotate to Bast that a Secu found of the suit would go thru and he wanted to aval fit self of the Only Opportunity he could count on to make a play Tor us partner. Bast accordingly shifted to a dub at trick two. South was i no hurry to re lease the Queen of clubs so Hep Ayed he six from his hand wait won the trick with the ten and returned the Queen at Spades which Declarer  had paid close alien Tun to the Dale Sivc strategy none quickly Drew some in Teresa in once Slons. Ii Bast had we King of clubs for example. H did not appear Likely that he would be so anxious to overtake his partner s 14 Declarer decided to proceed on the Assumption that the club finesse would fall. He Rathe entire Trump suit followed by three rounds of heart Teising up in Dummy. As the last heart we led. North was left with the ten of Spades and a club. Declarer Olio Wrt to the heart and retained the Ace Queen i clubs. West held the podes and the King a cd a " a in one to make. He gave up the Jack of clubs in ordet to guard the Pade suit. A club we led ram Dummy and South Ola Edthe Ace. When the Ting dropped Declarer s Queen be came the fulfilling talc or Lorn Ratt Uhm Gnu i 0� stars and stapes t945 year of decision and 1946-1952 years of trial and Hope memoirs by Harry s. Truman 2 Ebli Signet the year ims was a big one for Harry s. Truman and he rightly takes a full volume of his memoirs to Tell of the events and decisions he took part in. The Shock of Franklin d. Roose velt s death the founding of the United nations the Potsdam meeting the atomic bomb and the end of the War All Art described in or. Truman s matter of fact style. Or. Truman delineates the delicate negotiations with the rus sians leading up to the signing of the United nations charter on june 25. The soviets although showing indications of the obstructionism they were to practice in years to come seemed according to or. Truman s account to be More ready to Compro Mise. But it was the atomic bomb that was the big Surprise not Only for or. Truman but also for the world. Even As vice presi Dent or. Truman had no inkling of the Manhattan project Andus Rush to develop an atomic weapon. He was sworn in april 12 at 7 00 and met immediately with the Cabinet. After the rest of the Cabinet had left. Secretary of War Henry l. Samson took or. Truman aside and told him for the first time of a huge project under Way the development of new explosive of almost unbelievable destructive . Truman got scientific details on the a bomb later from Vannevar Bush head of the office of scientific research an development Fleet adm William d. Leahy who was present when Bush gave his by luring commented that is the biggest fool thing we hive Ever done. The bomb will never go Oft and i speak As an expert in explosives. To Mill Lre Elved. Announcement of the detonation of the first test bomb on july it in Potsdam where he had arrived for the conference of the big . Truman said he casually announced to soviet Premier Josef Stalin that the . Now possessed a weapon of unusual destructive  was not Loo interested in the development and told or. Truman he hoped we would make Good use of against the japanese.". Or. Truman was on his any Home from Potsdam aboard the Cruiser Augusta when word came of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. I of Cay moved old i the group of sailors around me this is the greatest thing in history. It s time for us to get Home. The nag Salu bomb Ana the end of the War followed quickly the coming of peace brought Only More problems. The russians had entered the War against Japan at the very end but their demands were not modest. After asking that All the Kuralle islands be turned Over to  asked that half of the Island of hokkaido should be occupied by soviet troops. Stalin also rejected . Requests for air base rights on one of the Kuralle islands. I i us Stalin was trying to bring to Japan the same kind of Divide Rule which the circumstances and necessities of the military situation had forced upon us in  the russians had scan Success in their demands in Japan. Or. Truman ends the first volume of his memoirs by say ingims stands out in my mind As a year of decisions a year of Many trying und Latell decisions the end of the War meant More decisions for president Truman. Europe in rums Contron muons with the communists the Marsha plan the formation of nato the korean War and two presiden tial campaigns Are All covered in this second volume of or Truman s memoirs. The communists kept Chipping away at the free world and u on March 30 the russian representative walked out of the Allied control Council. Between april 1 and july l tire soviet sealed Oil All big Liway. Vail and River traffic into and out of Bei a Althei Ciuti teen Ducal Dulli Cuttles As the reason for us b of set the Inch Tucius difficulties or. Truman says arose from thew Tarn  new up a titty us the Berlin Airlift which went on for More than a of or. Truman called Macarthur Home Memoir fresh _ vividly. Friday. April 30, 1965