West Germany Wants Prisoners Back
Before Sending Ambassador to Moscow
MOSCOW, UP)—West Germany
reiterated emphatically Saturday
in a stormy session with Soviet
leaders that it would not establish
diplomatic relations with Russia
until the German prisoner of war
question is settled.
Heinrich von Brentanto, West
German foreign minister, stated
the German position anew in a
meeting at Spiridonovka Palace
that lasted over three hours.
West German Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer emerged grim
faced from the working session,
without comment.
Von Brentano spoke after So
viet Premier Nikolai Bulganin
said the Soviet Union is not hold
ing any German prisoners of war
but has in its custody 9,626 “war
criminals whose sentencing was a
humanitarian act.”
The positions of the two gov
ernments after Saturday’s session
were announced at a news confer
ence presided over by Eleonid
Ilychev, Soviet foreign office
press officer.
Bulganin set the tone of the
opening working meeting when
he warned by implication that
Germany should not attempt to
bargain from a position * of
strength.
“If someone speaks from such
a position,” he was quoted as say
ing, “there is no sense of negotia
tions here.”
Adenauer was then reported to
have t answered that no one in
West Germany would think of
speaking with such a great power
as the Soviet Union from a posi
tion of strength.
Bulganin then emphasized again
the Soviet stand that German re
unification is a question for the
German people themselves.
The Russians have also been in
sisting that an exchange of am
bassadors with West Germany
should be the first step in the new
relationship. Adenauer’s position
from the first has been that the
war prisoners’ return must be
negotiated as a first step.
In the heated exchange, Bul
ganin said the Germans still held
had been convicted of serious
atrocities against the Soviet peo
ple. Adenauer said there had been
atrocities committeed under Hitler
but that the German people looked
on them with disgust and added
“Soviet troops when on German
soil also committed certain acts.”
Nikita S. Khrushchev, Soviet
Communist Party chief, answered
sharply that he categorically de
nied Soviet troops committed any
atrocities on German soil. He
called Adenauer’s remark “offen
sive” and said “it compelled me
to make this statement.”
Then he added:
“Who is to blame that these
people failed to return to their
relatives? If many Germans per
ished and even more Russians
died, who is to blame? We didn’t
cross the border. It was not we
who started the war.”
Soviet troops that continued
hostilities until German surrender
were only carrying out their du
ties, he said.
France and Ben Youseff
Make Agreement on
Morocco Reorganization
PARIS, —France Saturday
achieved a general agreement
with the pro-nationalist former
Sultan of Morocco, Mohammed
Ben Youssef, on plans for sweep
ing reorganization of the protec
torate’s government and relation
ship with France.
News of this development,
which can end months of turmoil
and bloodshed in Morocco, came
from distant Madagascar, where
two special French government
envoys boarded a plane bearing
the text of an accord signed by
the exiled ex-sovereign.
President Meets
With Republican
State Chairmen
By JACK BELL
DENVER, (#>—President Eisen
hower told GOP state chair
men Saturday that “I like the Re
publican Party better than ever”
but gave no public indication of
whether he would run again in
1956.
John Feikins, Michigan state
chairman, told newsmen that Eis
enhower expressed at a closed
breakfast conference with the
GOP leaders app?eciation for a
telegram th£y had sent him ex
pressing hope that he would run
again next year.
Feikens quoted the President as
saying that he was “compliment
ed and deeply flattered” by the
telegram.
Feikens said GOP National
Chairman Leonard W. Hall
opened the session by telling the
President that the state leaders
were not going to mention the is
soe of whether he would run
again. Hall added, Feikens said,
that one state chairman asked
what if Eisenhower didn’t run,
the chairman replied, “When I
come to that bridge, I will jump
off of it.”
The President was reported to
have laughed heartily at this.
Murray Enyder, assistant White
House press secretary, briefed re
porters on the President’s re
marks. Snyder quoted Eisenhower
as saying the Republican Party
isn’t so lacking in leadership that
it has to depend on one man.
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Firefighters Slowly
Gain Control Of
California Fires
SAN FRANCISCO, WG-F ire
fighters were getting the upper
hand Saturday on a dangerous
brush fire near Santa Barbara as
other points in this fire ravaged
state also turned more optimistic.
The Santa Barbara fire had
threatened 20 cattle ranches in
the area, but the firemen—includ
ing 500 marines—concentrated
along a seven-mile line and aided
by fog and rising humidity, ap
peared to be winning.
A total of 2,000 men were fight
ing the blaze which swept over
70.000 acres of brush and timber.
Nolan O’Neal, fire control officer,
estimated damage to the water
shed at more than $5 million.
Firemen planned to try out
3.000 gallons of a chemical fire
retardant Saturday. One officer
said the fluid would be getting ITS
first real test under real forest fire
conditions. The retardant can be
sprayed from pressure tanks as a
foam estinguisher and also can be
spread by plane-dropped balloons.
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CAPE NOME PRECINCT, SECOND
DIVISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA
No. 1051
Notice To Creditors
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
JOHN M. POWELL, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska,
Nome, Alaska, an Alaskan banking cor
poration, has been duly appointed the
Administrator With Will Annexed of
the above-named deceased.
All persons having claims against the
said estate should present them with
proper vouchers attached, to the said
Administrator within six (6) months of
the date of this notice.
Dated this 19th day of August, 1955.
MINERS AND MERCHANTS
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