DISARMING GERMANY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 157, 8 May 1940, Page 6

DISARMING GERMANY

NECESSITIES FOR PEACE | If Germany is compelled to sue for peace she should be required v.o withdraw all her forces—both regular troops and irregular formations;, such as the Gestapo, the S.S. and the S.A. —from all the countries she has forcibly occupied, in particular from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. She should also be required to Withdraw from these countries all Germans established on land or other property taken from their previous owners. Germany should be further required to repatriate all Austrians[Czechs and Poles who had been removed from their own countries, to disband the Gestapo, the S.S., and S.A. in her own country, and to release all prisoners in concentration camps and all political or non-cri-minal prisoners in ordinary gaols. As a safeguard against any renewal of war Germany should be required to transfer a large proportion of her air force to the Leagnr of Nations, with the proviso that the fate of these and other armaments should be subsequently decided by a general conference. This Would be a lore-shadowing of the constitution of an international a;r force.—Mr Ramsay Muir, vicc-presi-dent of the British Liberal Party Organisation,