MR. BEVIN TAKES OVER

Chronicle (Levin), 3 April 1948, Page 5

MR. BEVIN TAKES OVER

Received Priday, 7.35 p.m. LONDON, April 2. Mr. Ernest Bevin is now personally handling deveicymeirts in G-ermany, according to the Daiiy Bx±>ress' poiiu cal correspondent who says that the. situation is considered specialiy urgent because the Briasii, Anierican and French authorities have to i'eed more than 1,000,000 Berlin Germans. Only enough food for the Aliiecl forces can be taken in* by air. The possibility o. trouble among German civilians is not ruled out and there is evidence, the cor respondent says, that this kind of development is the Russian aim. At Helmstedt, 011 the internationai highway, the Russians allowed only uniformed Anierican personnel to pass The Russians claim that the restrictio.u are necessary to halt the ' 'illegai transport" oi industrial equipment and products to the Weslern sectors of Berlin and the Western Zones. The Russiancoatrolled newspapers have heen alleg-

» ing for weeks that Berlin's ecohomy is | being plundered by the movement 01 1 nany pnvate md^s^ries and businesse., Lo the Western Zones.