The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-07
U. S. Sends Trade Envoy to
Italy to Combat Ultimate
German Scheming
OUR COUNTRY TO
WORK WITH ALLIES
Italian Industries Will Need Help of
American Money to Prevent Them
from Relapsing into Control Of
German Financiers.

German FinancierS.
WASHINGTON, June What may
be the first step in general policy of
more active participation by the United
States in preparations of the nations at
war with Germany for the after-the
war trade struggle has been taken in
the appointment of an economic repre-
sentative of the state department to
join the American embassy at Rome.
The new envoy is about to proceed to
his post.
Though the recommendations of the
Paris economic conference never have
been formally accepted by the United
States, which in the past has viewed
with disfavor attempts to interpose ar
tifcial distractions to free commerce,
even with former enemies, recent de-
velopments in Europe have led to con.
ferences here between representatives of
the entente powers and officials of the
state department and the war trade
board, which may result in complete
change of the attitude of our govern
ment.
The attention of the war trade board
has been directed sharply to the far
reaching effect of the new treaty of al
lance between Germany and Austria
Hungary. This convention is soon to
be followed by similar arrangement
linking Germany and Austria with Tur-
key and Bulgaria, not only for military
purposes, but with the decision of DOM
mating the world industrially and COM
mereially.
Gigantic schemes have been drawn
for the control of all sources of supply
of raw material upon which industries
are based, generally at the expense of
Germany s present enemies, whom the
Teutonic rulers hope to force to accept
peace treaties conceding this control.
The entente powers and America, as
the plan has been explained, would be
excluded from the markets of this Nit
teleuropa combination, but on the other
hand would be forced to bny Germanic
products at prices to be fixed by the
makers.
So the American officials have been
told that the instinct of self-preserva-
ton dictates that some arrangement
be made between the entente allies and
America that will protect them from
this menace and insure mutual aid and
assistance, not only through financial
loans and credits, but by special tariff
arrangements, insuring their supplies
of raw material against German con
troll and looking to the free exchange
of this material between the nations
| that have made the fight against Ger
manic world domino ton.
Making a beginning with Italy, rear
| ranging the American system of short
credits on more generous scale, anG
planning future continuous supplies OF
raw material in return for Italian prod
ucts, it is expected that the United
States government soon will extend
| the policy to other countries associated
in the war.
The Italian government recently
named a commission to study after
the-war problems, and with this com
mission the American economic dele
gate is expected to have close relations
italian importing and exporting inter
4 ests in the United States also hav,
been quick to take advantage of tn,
opportunity afforded by the decision o
the Italian government to consider thi
important subject, and already the,
have Joined in the dispatch of a com
mittee to Italy to cooperate.
Italian industries, though of great pc
tcntial strength and capable of return
ing large profits on their capitalize
ton, are said to require substantial as
sistance from America if they are t
go on after the war without relapsin
into the control of German fnanciars.