ALLIED AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1942, Page 3

ALLIED AIMS

CONTROL OF POST=WAR EUROPE IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN PEACE. SUREY BY SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS. LONDON, November 15. Three suggestions made for securing the safety of Europe against the power of another Hitler were referred to by the Lord Privy Seal, Sir Stafford Cripps, in an address to the International Youth Council in London. They were: — 1. That Germany should be split up into a number of small States. 2. That German heavy industry concentrated in the Ruhr should be brought under some form of international control and started to work to restore the countries that had suffered from German occupation. 3. That German industry should be decentralised into the surrounding countries. Sir Stafford said these and other possibilities would have to be examined in great detail by the United Nations before any final decision could be reached. Europe, as a unit* in the world, would need its own European council where social, political and economic problems could be solved. The other great divisions of th,e world would need their councils, too, and over all Sir Stafford hoped to see a supreme world council where intercontinental problems could be settled. He said that when he spoke of Na?., aggression he did not wish to include every single German man, woman and child in the same indictment. Our concern must be to destroy the power of the Nazis and the German war machine, to punish war criminals, and to insist that Germany should repair as much as possible of the damage she had done her neighbours. Our task, he said, was to preserve Europian civilisation.