GERMANS WANT STATUT'E OF PEACE

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5296, 8 January 1947, Page 5

GERMANS WANT STATUT'E OF PEACE

Repetition Of Versailles Feared LONDON, January 7. Respcnsible Germans, in informal talks with the Allied authorities, have suggested that instead of an orthodox peace treaty being signed between Germany and the Allies, the latter should impose on Germany a statute of peace conditions,, once they had been d'ecided on by the Foreign Ministers at the Moscow Conference in March. This was revealed at a press conference in Berlin yesterday by Mr. Murphy, political adviser to the United States iMilitary Governor, who is this week going to London to represent the United States at the forthcoming meeting of Foreign Ministers' deputies, at which the procediure concerning- the estahlishment o'f peace conditions with Germany will be discussed. Mr. Murphy said that the suggestion haidi heen made casually by the Germans who did not want a repetition of what had happened after the First World War when Germany was saddled and wrecked by 'the responsibiiity of having signed the Versailles Treaty. Mr. Murphy adde'-d tliat the methods whereby a German authority •would 'be constituted was -one of the matters to he discussed in London by the deputies. His own personal opinion was that the fnll treaty would be signed hy the Germans, and he presumed that they would be given a chance of forming a new Government.