Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1945 — Page 2

Final Satrender Is Sealed: - Keitel Maintains Arrogance "(Continued From Page One) jon the table and took & seat, 100k- : ing ‘straight ahead, ignoring the

the surrender of German troops photographers. and equipment. Once or twice he fingered - his On the allied side it was signed| ooiar and nervously wetted his by Marshal . Zhukov for the Rus-| ins He was determined, however, sans, Alr Chief Marshal Tedder on| t carry his old school Potsdam ar- ' behalf of-Gen. Eisenhower, and was| rogance through to the end. witnessed by Lt. Gen. Carl &. At Separate Table Bpaatz and Gen. De Lattre de Tas-

On the German side Keitel, as Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, signed together with ‘Adm. Friedeburg, .. German navy, and Col. General Paul En glish: Stumpf?, commander-in-chief of the ..¢ hig luftwafTe. * With signatures of the heads of all the German armed forces appended, this historic document fore-

terpreters standing behind. When he was seated Tedder arose

“I ask you: document of unconditional surrender? Are you prepared to sign it?”

After + the translaten

Sain: 1a te Carman army ended po csian accent in German, $ . i dy.” Keitel, tall, haughty grey-haired I Be Y heh figure wearing the full dress uni- come over to the table. form and red-striped pants of “a his marshal’s German field marshal, maintained pickeq up his cap, his his Prussian arrogance to the bit-

terend, his right Asks Another 24 Hours down to sign in a long scrawling After his signature already had hand the single word “Keitel.” been appended, Keitel made a last- |

minute attempt to play for, time. | He beckoned the Russian interpreter | GOERING GIVES UP: to him and began haranguing him, |

bitterly protesting there was an in-| “HIDING IN BAVARIA

sufficient time to notify the forces under his command of minor modifications in the capitulation text | (Continued From Page One) and ‘asking for another<24 hours|pevers, commander of the 6th army | grace before it became effective. grou He could clearly be heard re- | peatedly saying. to the interpreter: | command post at 9 a. m. yesterday. “I insist you go to the colonel-gen- He explained his mission to Stack| eral=-1 mean Marshal Zhukov—and | and Maj. Gen. John E. Dahlquist, tell him I must demand another 24| division commander. hours respite.” | Stack went with Von Brauch- | The interpreter hesitated and ap-!itsch to the Radstadt - hideout, peared uncertain what to do and meeting the reichsmarshal on - ‘the | - finally went and consulted mem- road. Goering was accompanied | bers of Zhukov’ staff. As no'reply| {by his wife, a ‘child, and several] was conveyed back to Keitel it ap-| military aides and personal retain-

peared that the Russians ignored | ers. the request. > The entire party went to a castle | Triumphant ‘Climax { near the famous ski resort: of Kitz-

Marshal | buhl, which was occupied by = was the ay a ere [fren of ‘Goéring. They arrived a bitter 1000-mile battle from the| 2% 10:30 D. m. yesterday. ruins of Stalingrad into the heart. When Stack and Goering ‘met on of devastated Berlin. the road, both clambered “out of

Zhukov's” headquarters were estab- | {their cars and gave the military lished at Karlshorst as there is not| JSlute—Coeriugs, ype not a single building in the whole fan. | "¢ “au Sail =~ tastic nightmare. devastation of | Saw Hitler April 24 | central Berlin . that could house; “I am Gen. Stack of the 36th even a company headquarters, let!division,” the officer told Goering. alone that of a great army. | Goering explained that he spoke Keitel, too, had the fina] supreme some English but understood it humiliation of being ‘driven in a|better than he spoke" it. On the Russian staff car to meet Zhukov|drive to Kitzbuhl, Goering told through the blasted shambles of Stack that he last spoke to Hitler central Berlin, which have wit- on April 24. nessed the greatest triumph of his! On that day—oné day before the. and Hitler's ermed forces a bare Red army completed the encircles three. and a half years ago. |ment of Berlin, where the Nazis A Wellsian Setting |said Hitler died in battle—Goering We came here by plane. As “we 'said he telephoned the fuehrer at circled slowly over Berlin preparing Berchtesgaden. to land, the city underneath looked| The allies were abouts to bisect lke an incredible Wellsian setting.| Germany, and Goering reminded Mile after mile of gaunt, roofless, Hitler that the fyehrer once had

gutted shells of houses stood silent | said or the early days. of the War}

anything happened" to hint, There was no traffic in the should assume command. streets . except Russian military! he suggested ;that| vehicles. Over the whole dead the time was at hand, since theend capital there was a thick smoke seemed near. haze and columns of smoke from | : Execution Ordered . buildings still burning could bel gitler he said, was enraged by seen curling lazily into the still th, suggestion. He accused Goering! air over the city, fof losing faith and bluntly flung in} The SHAEF delegation was met nis teeth the warning that Goering’s | at the airfield by a guard of honor|death warrant was ready, adding: of a Soviet guards regiment With, “yt you renounce all your titles| flags of the Soviet Union, United ang high honors,-you will be for- | States and Britain. igiven.”, During the official presentation, . Goering said he complied, but | some. 60 or more Red army cam- Hitler nevertheless ordered his | eramen and newsreelmen swarmed | {execution. He was arrested at around the delegation. | Berchtesgaden, he said. Then: his The day was warm and sunny. followers shot their way through | The band played the three national the elite guards and carried him! anthems and a guard of honor in| away to a mountain hideout, the | Russian helmets and carrying long- | location of which the SS men bayonets fixed on their rifles gave, gould not ascertain. three hurrahs and staged a formal Goering seemed in Shoals parade and march, health and high spirits. He gave Call on Zhukov no evidence of realizing that he Tedder, Spaatz and their 8 att was out of the frying pan of. Hitler's | paid a formal call on Zhukov. in| Sentence into the fire of probable | - his office, a small simply furnished! trial by the allies as a war criminal. room with a Red flag and maps #s| As soon as he arrived at the the only decorations on the wall. |castle, he bathed and put on a In a “brief informal ceremony, favorite gray uniform trimmed with | Tedder presented Zhukoy with a heavy gold braid. He pinned on a silken SHAEF banner sent 'as|/row of the medals for which he a personal gift by Gen. Eisenhower | has become notorious, and posed @#iid Zhukov replied with a brief for photographers. He asked them speech of thanks. : | to hurry, saying he ‘wanted to eat. Before the signing of the sur-| “And drink?” one “photographer | vender, Keitel, haughty and self-|asked. possessetf, his face slightly flushed,| “Nein, nein,” he retorted 'Drink-:| "slammed h his marshals baton down | ing 1s { is for-you.”

and skeleton-like:

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EVENTS TODAY

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commander-in-chief of the and asked in a cold voice injof the world Srgavizaiion, Have you|learned today. : The formula, which would pre|serve - the Pan-American security Keitel | system with@ut weakeping the aupicked up a copy of the document thority of the world organization, stalls forever -any. future German | o 4, table and replied in harsh was disclosed as the United Na“Yes, tions conference deyoted- itself today to closed meetings of technical motioned him to {committees. Keitel | were scheduled. Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. baton and gloves and slowly and Molotov was expected to leave to- |learned, was presented to a Big Five | possible. carefully inserted his monocle in|day for Moscow where the question [meeting last night by Secretary of

Pp. : Von 'Brauchitsch arrived at |

dward Heath, Austin; ‘Dora Mor: | #1

world organization,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

P AN AMERIC AN to pert its being seated at the |would allow the pan-American sysLd Ros Lh ddd Ww;

U. S. Would Preserve Vital Understanding.

By R. H. SHACKFORD . Times Foreign Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, May 9.—The The Germans sat at a separate United States has drafted a comtable near the door with four uni-|promise formula which would allow formed aids and two allied in-|4ne western hemisphere to seftle its own disputes within the framework

coriference here will be settled. Averell Harriman -and-- Sir {putes without referring them to the Archibald Clark Kerr, U.S. and|world ' organization for ‘a limited British ambassadors to Russia, are period of time-—so long as they were expected to return to Moscow soon. | strictly hemispheric. Harriman, Clark Kerr and Molotov’ comprise a special commission set [longed and the security council deup at the Crimea conference to|cided~ that they threatened world work out an acceptable reorgani-|pegte, they would come under the zation of the Polish government. European and Latin A American | tion, countries proposed today, that the old league of nations hold ‘a final meeting in San Francisco and hand all of ‘its authority over to the new

Such action, they said, would remove any question of the legality of transfer of authority over terriit ‘was | tories mandated to certajn powers, especially Japan, by the old league. Designed to Remove Fears The new formula for settlement |tem into the world organization is of western hemisphere disputes was |one of two important jobs pow facdesigried to remove the fears of ng the conference.. The other 1s Latin American nations that the] inter-American security system set up at Mexico City recently would |firged to expedite their work and

tem to deal with hemispheric dis-

But once such disputes. were pro

jurisdiction of the’ world organiza-

Trusteeship Problem +Under the. original" Dumbarton Oaks amendments, all international disputes in a given area could be handled by a regional security system up until the time for positive enforcement action. For applica-|" tion of sanetions or use of .force, however. approval -of the security council would be needed. How to fit the Pan-American sys-

{how to solve the knotty trusteeship | problem. Commission chairmen are “being

No plenary sessions be lost in subordination to the new | technical committees are meeting

{ world organization,

BAAN

The American formula,

rmiore frequently in an ‘effort to it was draft the world charter as soon as

Formulation of a system for trus-

eye, walked over and sat of expanding the Polish government | State Edward R, Stettinius Jr. It'teeships of dependent areas is far-

sn ssnamnen nw aadoansnans y

| trade,

Gicst from’ r completion. As yet aot even a. paper foundation for a plah has begn. completed. . . The Big Five committee on trusteeships has six or seven “papers” on the problem before it ‘and four major unsolved specific issues: These are: ONE: Whether the trustee power should have the right té apply its own, discriminatcry practices® in immigration, etc. to the trusteeship area: ’ TWO: Whether the trusteeship council shall be under the assembly or under the economic and social council of the new world organiza tion; : THREE: Whether the American concept of two types of, trusteeships — strategic ahd non-strategic — should be accepted; FOUR: Whether trusteed peoples shall have the right of petition and whether the world organization should have the right to investigate on the spot, Experts here predict that the final version will come close to the American plan, in which Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen, a U, 8, delegate, has sald there is nothing to “prevent the safeguarding of essenfial security of the United States after the war.” The controversy with the Latin

Americans over how the Pan-Amer-

member of the as “probably the most difficult: cur-

ican system wil fit into the worl organization

erigan delegation rérit- crisis” ‘ot the conference.

GATES TO.BE GUEST

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1065

suns JAMESON IS NEW A P. MANAGER 3

Associfited ‘Press hy here is John Jameson, pres

AT WASHINGTON, D. C. was transferred - flom New York.

. WASHINGTON, May 9.—Guver-|He succeeds Alvin E. Orton, as nor Gates is scheduled to be the|signed to head the Minneapolis guest of ‘honor at the annual In-|bureau.

{diana Society of Washington dance

at the Shoreham hotel, May 26. Rep. Robert A. Grant, South Ben

Republican, is society president. He | here.

With ‘the press association. since 1934, Mr. Jameson was 8 desk edi. d tor at New York before coming He has worked at A. P,

also announced that the Indiana bureaus in. Oklahoma City,” Tulsa

society will join with that of New|and Kansas City, Mo. York state in a moonlight sail on the Potomac river May 16. A new [editorial worker at the Muskogee

Previously, Mr. J

2400-passenger excursion steamer| (Okla) Daily. Phoenix and the

has been chartered.

NO FURTHER WORD ON

Oklahoma City Dally Oklahoman, A native of- Arkansas, he attended the University of Oklahoms and Rice institute. 'He is matried and

16 MISSING POLES nas two children.

LONDON; May 9 (U. P.).—Minis~ ter pf State Richard K. Law told commons today that the Russian government has given no further ir-| Exchange Telegraph dispatch said

| SWIS§ RELEASE FEELINGS LONDON, May 9 (U. P)—An

forrhation about 16 missing Polish|today that a-jubilant crowd wrecked

politicians since their arrest was an-|the Ge

nounced last, week.

Law said the British charge d'af-|ing all the faires in Moscow had been directed |of Adolf Hitler into the street or |

to seek further information,

travel agency in Zurich, Switzerland, last night, pitch-

the Sihl river.

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furniture. and pictures |

WEDNES

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