Germans Start Riding High Horse

Chronicle (Levin), 5 February 1948, Page 5

Germans Start Riding High Horse

Received Tuesdav, 7 p.m. L(L\1)(L\, Feb. Military Government officials in Ger inany are worried by tlie pronounced disrespect and even hostility which the Genuans ara showing towards the British oeeupation authorities, states ttie Xews Chronicle 's correspondent in the Biitish /oue. He says: ''Reports from all fonr regronal eoniniissioners e.xpress eonee.ni at the sharp deelijie in Britisl jjrestiffe— hitherto high— and urgo J'ronipt and stern measures to eounter act t liese syniptoms. The Ruhr is in a snllen niood. Refusal to repair cars that .carry the Fiiion Jack is coninion. A eolleague who renionstrated with a German driver who deliberatelv raniined his car, fonnd hiniself surrouiided by ;i meiiacino- erowd and even ;t po'iceiiiaii he suninioned ignored his eliarges l against the (lernian driver, insisting' on taking the Briton's naine as the offender.

"Uhile the prestige of all the Allies lias fallen eonsideralily, the Americans liave replaced the British in popu laritv. Stirxeys last summer showed tlie British to be well ahead with a percentagr of 4.'1 conipa red with the Ameriean 's 29 More recently the figures were 35 and 16 respeeti vely. Food parctds are no longer received With general gratitude lnit as a right-' — thev are takou to indieate that reports of Britain's rationiug privations are untrue. " German political leaders have drawu up ptiblielv ahd offieially an 'oeeupation statute' defining the 'powers' of the military government and their 'dufies to the population. The British stipuated that the Zonal Advisorv Conncil fsupreme German political bodv in the i-onr ) 'must limit t liese functions, A'aving the Germans to administei' t homselves ' '