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Show 10-Year Stay in Reich Predicted New German Commander Favors Stern Policy Toward Nazis. FRANKFORT, GERMANY. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, newly designated desig-nated commander of American forces in Europe, predicted that the Allied occupation of Germany would continue for at least 10 years, the United Press reports. General McNarney recently held his first press conference since his appointment to succeed General Eisenhower. He told the newspaper men that there was likelihood that an occupation would last much longer long-er than 10 years. This would give the Germans time to establish themselves along democratic lines and to perfect a self-supporting economic eco-nomic program, he said. General McNarney said that he strongly favored the plan for the families of occupation troops to join them as soon as possible, where soldiers are the heads of such families, fami-lies, although he did not want them to come this winter. No Sympathy for Nazis. General McNarney's firm reiteration reitera-tion of a strict denazification program pro-gram for Germany crushed the hopes of thousands of Germans who thought that they might get lesser penalties because they were only so - called "nominal" party members. The general said that he had no sympathy for Nazis of any sort, whether they were active party members or "whether they joined the party through the necessity of feeding their wives and children." "I have not forgotten who started the war," he said. "The German people must realize that they are responsible, and that their debt has not been paid." He then repeated General Eisenhower's Eisen-hower's military government law No. 8, which bans the appointment appoint-ment of Nazis to civil or private supervisory positions. General McNarney said he had no plans for Gen. George S. Patton, former 3rd army commander who was replaced after criticism of his denazification policy, except to permit per-mit him to finish his task with the 15th army, which is compiling a minute study of the military history of World War II. Unification Big Problem. Discussing the future for Germany, Ger-many, he said he believed the biggest big-gest problem would be co-ordination of a common policy under the four-part occupation council for an eventually unified government of Germany. A "long, hard pull of many years" lies ahead before the European living liv-ing standard as a whole reaches prewar levels, he said. General McNarney revealed that President Truman at present was seeking a suitable civilian for governor gov-ernor of Germany, as civilians rather rath-er than the' military are scheduled to take over the job, probably beginning be-ginning about June 1. He said that his policy would be to release officers of long service as soon as possible for their return to the United States. As soon as possible meant, he explained, as soon as competent replacements are available from the United States. Correspondents, he said, will be allowed full freedom of the press at his headquarters and in the occupation occu-pation zone. He indicated that he would remove present restrictions that force correspondents to seek all information from specified department de-partment appointees instead of talking talk-ing with officials directly connected with the story involved. |