Military Board's Job Is To Muzzle Germans

Chronicle (Levin), 19 January 1949, Page 5

Military Board's Job Is To Muzzle Germans

LOXBOX. Jan. 18. Tlie Military Security Board whose task will be to prevent a revival oi nilitarism and the creating of a wai notential in Germanv has lieen const.tuted and has entered on its work. With its establishment the control of security, at least so f'ar as Western Ger many is concerned, may be said to be learing completion, says The Times Ber- ' i n correspondent. Tlie board's immediate concern will be to supervise industrial and scientihe • ■tivi.ty. The policing of" politics is not •leeiiicalty part of'its du'ties. This .pre--mnrably will be dealt with under new agencies, -the setting up .of which is eontemplated in the occupation statute. The Times correspondent adds most observers of , the.GpfW ,s^ene. wiH agree that the board takes up its task none too soon. -The revival of tlie "militaristic spirit " may not be es pecially noticeable but nationulistic feeling — which is usuallv a prelude to 'the militaristic spirit — has grown disturbingiv in recent hfonths. The latest ■binionthly . report on tlie Ameriean Zone calis attention to the tendency in German periodicals "to stimulate saies by featuring militarist, nationalist and anti-semitie material." Nationalism has also been deliberately and perhaps dangerouslv stimulated bv the Communists as an instrunient of Russiau poliey.