Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Page 2 stars october reports on Washington z speaking Over a nationwide of Batto Joines Byrnes said that the first session of the Council of foreign ministers in London had in a but that ims need not deprive us of a second and better chalice to get on with the Byrnes disclosed the United states had proposed a truly re present alive peace conference be fore the end of the year but that the soviet Union has not yet accepted or rejected the admitting that the Council of foreign ministers Lead disagreed on a most important and Funda mental Issue declared we must not relax in our efforts to achieve just and lasting peace our selves and purpose was exploratory Secretary pointed out that the Council had been me rely to problems Ana pre pare proposals forthe final peace settlements and that Good Progress made of the italian treaty and substantial Progress on the rumanian and bulgarian russian insistence on he exclusion of France and China from the discussions of the Mandan and bulgarian treaties that led to stalemate which prevailed at the the conferee Byrnes it no been for the difficulties experienced by the Allied governments in agreeing upon a common policy in regard to the recognition of the governments of inside Europe Rumania and a More conciliatory spirit might possibly have prevailed and might greatly have helped to overcome the procedural difficulties of the Council he accept hard reality die United Byrnes is wining to make Many conces Sions but does not believe in agreement at any the difficulties encountered at the London conference will i Byrnes impress upon the Peoples of All including our the hard reality that none of us can expect to write the peace in our if this hard reality is accepted by the statesmen and the Peoples at an Early stage of the peacemaking it May at later stages save us and save the peace of the world from the disastrous effects of disillusionment and Wiitra Nigen recalling that he was at Yalta with the late president Byrnes said the Yalta declaration n liberated and of satellite coun Ries was based on a proposal sub fitted by Roosevelt under which he Allied Powers pledged the earliest possible establishment through free elections of govern ments responsive to the will of the Bulgaria and Rumania that he can not be fulfilled in countries where Freedom of speech and of Assem Bly Are to was referring to Bulgaria and govern ments of which have not been re indictments readied against War criminals As trials near Berlin indictments against 24 major nazi War criminals Are Complete and the Date of their trials at Nuremburg will be announced indictment texts will be published simultaneously in Washington London and a word statement of Char Ges is being delivered to defend finds in the Martin is still officially Unac counted for and will be tried in if not other defendants include Hermann goer ing and Rudolph flown this week from at Josef kramers trial the for Mer Belsen concentration Camp commander admitted using Gas to kill but said orders for Ine executions came from Heinrich Kramer also said he never deliberately or Asci deftly snot anyone in 10 years As an is Man and denied inflicting cruelties on Camp German medical personnel were charged by a military court in Wiesbaden with murdering 400 russian and polish slave Minnie insane Asylum testified she gave Poison injections to 14 women who died within one or two death for Laval Paris Pierre former Premier accused of collaborating with the was sentenced to death for Laval refused to appear denouncing both judge and jury As Dulles praises London talks new Foster advisor to of state James asserted this in a nationwide that the Council of foreign ministers made not a bad but a Good beg inning in the talks Fie served to bring into the open difficulties of Long standing which formerly sacrificed at Tho altar of military Dulles slated that Tho soviet de legation wanted to find out to what extent the was willing o sacrifice its principles to attain its one of which was tin appearance of Unity amour Lue informed of the sen Laval said he would not sign an Appeal for mercy during live Days of bizarre testimony and the court was thrown m a tumult several prosecutor Hornet summing up recited a Long list of crimes credited to the most hated Man in France and concluded by demanding death for the former Raigna the Voulgaris Ca Binet resigned after Eam protested the government decision to hold in telegrams to president prime minister Attlee and general do Athens papers said 500 american troops Are expected to come Anil the on8 for Austria r the Allied meeting under Gen Mark Clark o consider labor problems announced that Trade unions will be allowed to organize As Long As Bey were for inv Windsor in England London returning to eur and for the first inc m the the Duke of Windsor e last saw the Queen when he abdicated the Brush m marry the mar Allis executed Oss yanks Rome German general Anton Dostler is on trial before a us military court on charges of order i execution of 15 american troops in March the Oss assigned to blow up a la spezia were shot on Dostler orders two Days after capture in violation of Hague con altho All wore american gis too kind to germans Washington american sol Diers Are too kind for Reich occupation troops and should be brought says Henry Morgenthau in a Book he is publishing the former Treasury secret by urges Germany be policed by her neighbors and suggests the Reich be Morgen Haus widely debated last caused a Cabinet split Over plans for a Littard Secretary of state Byrnes cognized by either the United states or great while the very controversial Boundary dispute Between Yugo Slavia and Italy was not it was encouraging to find that t was possible to agree that the Ine should in the main be govern 3d by ethnic considerations and hat regardless of he sovereignty should be a free port at Trieste under International con he said the Council was in Gen eral agreement that the dodecanese should go to Moscow and London give their views Moscow the soviet govern ments newspaper Izvestia in a front Page commentary said that if the United states and Britain continued to insist on the position they took during the London con Thev would shake the basis of collaboration the three major the editorial is the first comprehensive explanation of the soviet position on the the russian stand is that the Potsdam agreement limited such discussions to signatories of the armistice and opposed Franco and China being included in discuss ions on the Balkan peace London foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the House of commons that prime minister Attlee and Generalissimo Stalin had been unable to break the deadlock Over procedure which brought about the collapse of the foreign ministers Confer taking virtually the some stand As of state Byrnes had in Bis radio report to the american peo he said that when the three ministers could not agree on he inclusion of France and China in the the problem was referred to the Heads of the governments could not a ret he pointed out that after working under an agreement beginning Molotov had slated ten Days later that his government could not agree to such an interpretation of Potsdam despite the fact that at the Start of the talks there had been apparent agree mein kampf Metal now casts free press paper Munich the original Type Metal used to print mein kampf hitlers blueprint for world Domi will he used to cast the Page plates of such Deutsche Zei new democratic paper in the event inaugurates the institution of free press in the Thiec German journalists with Antinazi records will control the Only restrictions against Hie new publication Are designed to the propagation of nazism or militaristic ideals and disparagement of lie ministers conference although the assent of one Mem Ber was qualified pending a study of certain questions by his govern austrian recognition Byrnes expressed the Hope that As a result of the efforts now being made by the provisional austrian government to broaden its the United states May soon be Able to re Cognize that he said a investigation was under Way on conditions in Rumania and Bulgaria and expressed sympathy for the governments desire to have Friendly governments in those 1 he pointed can not know whether conditions justify recognition unless our political representatives Are fully informed and unless our news correspondents Are permitted freely Tenter the countries and freely to Send heir stories peace concern of All commenting on russian insist ence that China and Fra Rice be barred from the discussions of peace treaties with the Balkan Byrnes said such exclusion of two permanent Mem Bers of the Security Council of the United nations organization would not promote the harmonious relations essential to the Success of the United nations Organiza the american he took the position that in1 an democratic peace cannot be the exclusive concern of a few presently powerful states that unless we were to revert to world of Isola none of the states which we wanted invited to the Pence conference could be be not directly concerned in the when the soviet delegation said1 it could not agree to the american proposal for peace conference until it had returned to Moscow for personal consultations Wiki their the Secretary said it therefore became obvious there could be no agreement unless the other delegations were pre pared to yield their views and Cor fictions to those of the soviet China and France be excluded from the the veto Power the United Byrnes As is willing to dictate the terms of the peace to an enemy hut is not willing to dictate the terms of the peace to its this distinction Between the members of Tho were parties to the surrender terms and those who were he Salt was not part of the original ame rican proposal and was reluctantly accepted by we were fully aware that a member would not have the right to vote if not a parly to the surrender terms but to understood from an Exchange of views at the table at Potsdam that All members would he allowed to participate in All discussions in the thereto Byrnes conclude Nisi not be used by any nation to the judgement and conscience of fellow inside Asia shintoism banned in Japan As official state religion Tokyo the state religion of the powerful control wielded by Jap Lias been abolished by the this measure is one of the most determined taken so far to Mould Japan into u peaceful the ban does not Sif Fiji Shin Loison in so far As it is a religion of the individual it deprive the cult of its its special its place in schools and it official enforcement on the at the same to liar decreed a revolutionary mag 11 a charter for ordering the Imperial government to remove All bars to Freedom of religion and Assembly and to disband the still Active thought Tho japs were ordered to release their political prisoners by Premier Prince re signed this after being or dered by Macarthur to achieve Radical political and he was forthwith replaced by Baron Kujuro Long regarded As a Liberal with democratic Tenden Shigehara immediately formed his japans second since the Anil planned his fast meeting even before ing Tho roster to the emperor an unprecedented japans Silver and Platinum totalling More than have been discovered and impounded by Allied since this horde May contain loot from conquer real Macat Lur announced the treasure held until Allied governments Send instructions on its according to the russian pm Bassy in the recall of Kuzma military representative to Mac Arthurs head does not foreshadow a general russian withdrawal a spokesman said that Derevyanko returned for business unrest in Java All oilfields and refineries in Java Are now in the hands of the Accord ing to their newspaper Merdoc and they indicate that they will not yielding demands for com plete also charged that the Allied com Mand is disturbing peace and order in Java by permitting dutch troops and agents from the Netherlands colonial administration to Uata Yia is generally Fol but the confused situation despite repeated Allied the japs Are still handing Over various installations to the they want to be alone Llepun Secretary of the korean told up correspondent Hugh grumpier that both uie and Russia must withdraw immediately from alleging that their presence is detrimental to the political growth of the korean move against communists Pirung King i prominent chinese communist was assassinated monday while Riding through the streets of chimkking1 in an and As peace talks Between the Central government and the be Nan communists were chinese communist sources were quoted by up As asserting that Chiang Kaish eks troops have at tacked communist forces and their controlled areas in Central crisis in Saigon Rangoon British and French commanders in a Tracey and have arrived1 Here to Confer with lord Loui Mountbatten on the political earlier reports indicate that discussions in Saigon have Brok japs surrender tientsin tientsin Keller Marine big accepted the surrender of Jap troops in tientsin on behalf of Chaing murder of airmen Shanghai japanese revealed this week that 14 airmen at Formosa were murdered shortly before the while Tokyo was seeking Peao army resumes Roth advanced courses Washington the army in resumed its advanced course for the Reserve officers training offering a series of Finan Cial inducements for veterans who take the course at die two year advanced course was sus Pended during the War