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Germany Is Easy
To Handle-So Far
Lochner Says Conqnest So Rapid That
Poppulation 'Meely Does What Told'
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was writ- In the Saarland on the whole, the
ten by the former head of the A Berlin
Bureau before V-E day was officially foreign occupation is accepted more
proclaimed and tells how the German grudgingly. Various military govern-
peole have reacted to control by the Al- ment officials testified the German
lied Military Government thus far.) attitude was neither friendly nor
hostile-merely acceptance.
By LU .But here, too, the picture was not
Associated Press Correspondent unanimous. At Saarbruecken, for in-
SOMEWHERE IN GERMANY - stance, the attitude of the popula-
The Allied conquest of Germany in tion was described as "cooperaive".
the last months has been sb rapid In the Palatinate, cooperation
that the bewildered German popula- appears faultiest in cities the leastI
tion in occupied territory for the touched by war, whereas civilians
most part meekly does what it is told. in totally wrecked places like Lud-
This temporarily makes military wigshafen and Worms evince a
government a relatively easy task definite anxiety to fit themselves
but no military governor is willing to into the new picture.
predict that it will remain thus. I
have talked to dozens in the Rhine- Whatever may be the degree of
land, Saar territory and Palatinate willingness to accept the situation
from colonels in major centers like of a defeated people, military gov-
Cologne and Saarbruecken to a non- ernment officials everywhere agree
commissioned officer in a small spot thatrthree factors makedtheir task
like Gtuenstadt in the Palatinate. easier than was expected the Ger-
Few Difficulties man's respect for order, his cleanli-
None as yet has complained of any ness and his devotion to his job.
important difficulties in governing Nazis Ignoble in DefeatI
the defeated Germans. Almost in- As military government officials
variably they say the biggest prob- see it, the average German with a
lem is caring for displaced persons, long tradition of obedience to au-
of which there are estimated to be thority behind him, accepted Nazi-
eight millions-five and a half mil- ism because it constituted the only
lion civilians and two and a half mil- authority in the Reich. Now that
lion liberated Allied slave laborers authority is gone and, fortunately
and prisoners of war. for the Allies, the Nazi authorities
The attitude of the conquered Ger- left under disgraceful conditions.
mans varies from an expressed desire They abandoned their peoples and
to cooperate to sullen acceptance of fled with the retreating armies. This
a situation that cannot be changed. did more to debunk the Nazis in the
In the Rhineland, especially Cologne, eyes of the German people than any
people went out of their way to offer amount of propaganda.
help. With Nazi authority gone, the be-
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Peace as finally come
towa r-tor Euro e...
and the nations are now preparing the treaty
that will conclude the second great world con-
flict. Let us hope that this V-E Day and the
eventual V-Day will mark the beginning of a 9
new era of international co-operation and1
brotherliness.1
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T1HE .'lCHIGANf lAITY'
Quotations that Have Become
Famous During World War II
(AP) Features ded upon four essential human free-
The great, the near-great and the dors . . . freedom of speech
ommcn man said these memorabie freedom of cvery person to worship
phrases during Europe's war. He' God in his own way . .. freedom from
Member? want . . . freedom from fear."-
"I shall not take off this uniform Roosevelt, Jan. 6, 1941.
ntil we have achieved victory. -_ "Italy will march to the end side
Adolf Hitler, Sept. 2, 1939. by side with Germany."-- Benito
"I have nothing to offer but Mussolini, Feb. 23, 1941.
blood, toil, tears and sweat."-
Wi sten Churchill, May 13, 1940. "The enemy (Russia) has been
"'Ihis tattle decides the fate of the t so hard that lie never again
German nation for the next 1,000 will rise up."-Hitler, Oct. 3, 1941.
years."--Hitler, May 20, 1940. "Another few months, another half
"Never in the field of human year, one year maybe, and Hitlerite
canflicts was so much owed by s0 Germany will burst under the weight
1rany to so few."--Churchill, to of her own crimes. '-Joseph Stalin,
the RAF, Aug. 20, 1940. Ncv. l, 1941.
"You can say one tJng for t' e 'Sighted sul, sank same."-En-
t . hrycertaini take on3 ign -ad F. Masr, U.S.N., Feb.
a ind off the war."--London house.- k 42
wife duri:-g air blitz, Oct. 1940.
"We must become the great air- "I have not become the king's first
scral of deinocracy."- President minister in order to preside over the
Rooevelt, D c. 29, 1940. liquidation of the British Empire."-
"We look forward to a world foun- Churchill, Nov. 11, 1942.
DON'T TAKE A HOLIDAY,
AMERICA!
Swe've got the enemy on the run !
THEi WAR IS H ALF OVER!9
COME ON.. .Let's Finish the job! .
L G. BALFOUR CO.
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HORROR OF WAR GRAPHICALLY DEPICTED-This picture shows the destruction and terror wrought
by the War against Germany which has just ended. It was taken in the streets of Cologne during the
heaviest fighting there. Note the rubble in the streets and tankmen fleeing snipers' bullets. Recon-
struction of these battle-scarred areas is expected to take a long time.
wildered German turned to the next
authority-the military government.
They take orders just as they did
from the Nazis. The picture is some-
what misleading, however, because
many military government officials
wonder what will happen now we
have reached regions from which the
Nazis cannot escape.
German cleanliness is a by-word
among military government officers.
In every city I visited, housewives
were cleaning windows, scrubbing
floors, removing debris and men were
repairing damage and inserting glass
panes. In the agricultural sections
they were doing the spring planting.
The average German "little
man" lives for his job and family.
It hurts him to destroy what he
created. This explains why orders
to sabotage plants before the Am-
ericans arrived often were not car-
ried out.
In some cases, AMG men say, men
who all their lives assembled and
pored over records, failed to destroy
them because that meant destruction
of their life's work. This regard for
their life's job also explains in part,
AMG officers said, why technicians
are so ready to assist in getting their
city in running order again.
There is no doubt the Germans
prefer American occupation to
French or Russian. The Germans
fear the liberated Russians most for
these were probably the worst treat-
ed as forced laborers. The Russians
on their part have a long memory for
the bad bosses they worked under.
There were long faces in Saar-
bruecken, Zweibruecken, Homburg
and Speyer when I visited them, sim-
ultaneously with arrival of French
troops, including colored colonials,
who apparently are to relieve Ameri-
can detachments soon. People came
running to the American military
governors, importuning them to re-
main.
Germans in most occupied areas
are so bewildered and awestruck that
they make no complaints and pre-
sent no grievances. They do plead.
however, to be permitted to resume
running such of their factories as are
relatively intact.
Military governors .thus far have
discovered no evidence of the Nazi
subversive underground. They re-
gard typical Nazis as bullies who
fold up when the game is up and
who are not likely to be able to sell
themselves as underground leaders
in view of the fact they unheroic-
ally fled.
It is too early as yet for any pic-
ture of the civilian Germany of the
future to emerge.
Many military government offi-
cials believe that now Hitler is licked
and unconditional surrender is im-
posed, new, competent leaders will
emerge. Others, less optimistic, fear
a long time will elapse before the
nilitary government can become a
nere advisory function.
THEY THOUGHT HUN WAS LICKED:
Ann Arbor Town Let Down Hair
In Celebrating 1918 Armistice
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Issue Items at 3 P.M.: Metropolitan
Cities Celebrate: Whole Country Pa-
triotic." By this time whistles had
begun to blow, church bells were
ringing, many students marched up
and down the campus walks, drag-
ging tin cans or anything to make
noise after them.
A huge bonfire in front of the
court house was started at 7:30 a .m.,
while thousands of students gathered
on the campus to send up cheer after
cheer for President Wilson. Tin cans,I
tin horns and tin lizzies were the
order of the day. Classes were sus-
pended to allow the students to cele-
brate the signing of the armistice.
Parades, war dances, bonfires, hazing
of freshmen - . -
There wals no official celebration
by the military personnel stationed
on can;pus; however, by the time
the fourth and final war's end Dai-
ly extra, headlined "Terms Out,"
was issued, a parade had started in
front of the city court house. Ac-
cording to the extra, Ann Arbor
paraded as it had never done be-
fore; an abundance of flags and
bunting practically buried the city
in their folds; the S.A.T.C., naval
unit, played a prominent part in
the parade.
Under the heading "Heard as They
Pass," in the final extra edition,
such comments as "And this was the
iay I had five classes; some folks
;et busted out on all the luck, huh?"
"That Kaiser ain't the only one
'hat's slinging scraps of paper!"
"What are we going to do with these
old uniforms anyway?" and "Spppu-
beuth"-a faceful of confetti! could
'e found.
President Harry B. Hutchins was
)ut of town that joyous day, but the
excited people who had been aroused
'rematurely with the false announce-
'ment of an armistice on Nov. 7, could
not contain themselves. When the
irst false report of the German sur-
render came, excited groups on the
street corners threw their hats into
she air, embraced each other; church
>ells rang, and factory whistles blar-
d noisily throughout the city.
As thousands of students and
townspeople celebrated the surrender
)f the Boche in this small University
gown, so millions more were letting
)ff some of that "surplus steam"
vhich had been aroused by the early
:alse armistice report, in the larger
netropolitan cities of Chicago, Phil-
idelphia and New York.
In the city of bright lights, now
dimmed during the nationwide
brownout, New Yorkers led the
nation in a 24-hour celebration.
As a searchlight spotted out the
news flashed on the Times build-
ing, air raid sirens blew, Barnard
coeds snake-danced across the
campus, heads were bowed and
hats taken off as a tall, fresh-
cheeked English girl sang the
"Doxology" from the platform of
Liberty Hall; the familiar strains
of the "Marseillaise", "Star Span-
gled Banner," and "God Save the
King" were heard by celebrators
on Fifth Avenue. An effigy of the
Kaiser was burned in Times
Square.
The United War Work Campaign,
headed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
in New York City, caOled for at least
$170,500,000. Proceeds from a horse
show went to the nationai fund, and
the Hotel Astor held a V-Ball, char-
ging $10 per person, the recipients
of which also went to the UWW
drive; patronesses included such fa-
mous names as Ethel Barrymore,
Billie Burke, Theda Bara, Fay Bain-
ter, Mary Pickford and Lillian Rus-
sell.
"Fair and not Much Change" was
the weather forecast for the day, as
the Red flag was hoisted over the
royal palace and Brandenburg Gate,
while the Socialist Democrat Party
in Germany undertook to form a new
government under Frederich Ebert,
chancellor.
Reminiscent perhaps, but an Ital-
iant Discount and Trust Co. an-
nounced the opening of offices for
transaction of business that day. The
Fifth Avenues of that great metro-
politan city and this college town
were united--by a common bond of
joy, on Nov. 11, 1918.
Is Our Battle Cry!!
We have a right to be happy on this momen-
tous day, but we can't wholeheartedly rejoice
until the Pacific War is also over. We must
keep up our good work and even strive harder
until complete victory is won.
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.. .Ask the Joes in the front lines!"
"They know; every G.I. Joe knows,
"This is the big show. This is the pay-off.
This is the one that counts."
GERMANY HAS SURRENDERED! But that victory has
come at the greatest price we have ever had to pay. We
at home must not forget for one careless minute that the
road to Tokyo is long and hard, that much American blood
will soil the countless little Pacific Islands before we readJ
that Japan has quit. So forget that Germany has surren-
dered . . and keep in mind that Japan must be beaten;
they started it, let's finish it!
The Road to Tokyo
WillBeLong
The American Army, Navy, and Marines reign
victorious in the Pacific. We have beaten the
Japs at Midway, Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo. But
Japan still controls an area and population far
larger than the United States. Japan has more
than 4,000,000 well-trained, battle-hardened
troops ready for battle. Every man, woman,
and child is ready -eager to die for their sacred
emperor. No, Japan is not through yet. But
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