MALADMINISTRATION IN GERMANY ALLEGED

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5322, 7 February 1947, Page 5

MALADMINISTRATION IN GERMANY ALLEGED

! - ■ LONDON, Fehruary 6. - "We are piling up by. our muddle, our mismanagement and our good intentions the seeds of a third Gerniaii war," said Mr. Richard Law, openittg the House of Commons" debate >0^ Germany. "The problem of Germany is the administration of a policy of a far wider rauge than charity. ' "It is my own conviction that the Germans are as odious iit defeat — as abject aiid self-pitying and unwilling to faeer up to facts — as they are arrogant and vicious in victory. We haTve lost the respect of the Gernian people by oilr inefficiency." Mr. Law added: "Reports of the food situation in Germany are not ex» aggerated. As to the destruction, if thousands of tons . of rubble were cleared away in Berlin daily it Would take 30 years 'befole the site would be cleared for rebuilding." ' - He" said the British system oi • ad- ^ miinistration was ill-coneeived and entirely inadequate. The -Government was trying to find hypothetical solutions instead of dealing with matter^ of emergency as they arose. The dhuazification policy 'had created 9, vested interest in favour of a war of revenge. Dealing with denazification, -Mr.; Law said no German who. had heen an officer of the Wehrmacht was allowed' to go to a university. Civil administrators a nfi business executives were under a sort of penmanent risk of dismissal. "We have to realise," he declared, "that everybody in Germany had to be a ntember of the Nazi party but a very great number of GermanS ' were 'just professed members." 1 . .