MERGER OF ZONE IN GERMANY

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5278, 13 December 1946, Page 5

MERGER OF ZONE IN GERMANY

(Press Assn.-

NO CHANGE EXPECTED

BRITISH ADMINISTRATION KEPT AT HIGH LEVEL

-Rec. 9.30 v.m.)

LONDON, Dec. 12. No change was c.onjtemplated in the military and political relations of Britain and America in Germany as a result of the projected merger of the two zones, said Mr. J. B. Hynd, Minister resporisible for the zone of oc-cupation, in the House of Commons, replying to a question. Answering another question Mr. Hynd said it was Britain's intention to maintain the best level of British administratiojh. when the merger • was accom'plished. He was unable to make a statement on the establishment of courts to try the 27,000 per§ons at present •detained in Germany for belonging to organisations which were declared illegal at Nuremberg. Mr. Warby* asked whether, "in view of the more conciliatory statement" by Generalissimo Stalin on the unification of Germany any new conversatiofis would be undertaken with other oecupation authorities aimed at unification. Sir Hector McNeil said Mr. Ernest Bevin at the Foreign Ministers' Council in Paris had said it was Britain's policy to treat Germany as a whole. He later circulated a paper expressing his view that it was competent for any oecupation authority to reply.