Evening star., 1936-10-20
GOER|NG BECOMES
TRADE DICTATOR
Receives Sweeping Author.
ity to Take Control of
4-Year Plan.
BY WALLACE r. DEUEL..

BY WALLACE X. DEUEL..
By Radio to The Star.
BERLIN. Germany, October 20
tor today, Col. Gen. Hermann Goer-
ing, whom Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler
now has invested with full RESPONSE
bility and full power for carrying
out q four-year plan to make Ger
many as independent as possible of
foreign raw materials.
Gen. Goering has received sweep
ing authority. In the words of the
official announcement Of his appoint
ment, he will take all necessary
measures for the fulflllment of the
task entrusted to him and also have
the right to issue legally binding ordi-
nances and general administrative reg
ulations. He Is authorized to confer
with and give orders to all political
authorities. including the highest ma
tional officials, and to all offices of
the Nazi party. their organizations
and their associated societies.
This new step is another victory
for the party radicals. Not that Gen.
Goering Is q radical, economically
speaking, because he Is not. But he Is
Nazi and the four-year plan Is in
itself a radical plan supported by the
party left-wingers and 1t calls for the
outlay, forced II necessary, Of enor.
nous amounts Of capital which can
come only from big industry and big
banks.
Outline Drafted by Keppler.
The broad outlines Of the plan
itself have been drawn up by Will
helm Keppler, Hitler's personal ad-
wiser on economic questions and de-
cidedly q left-winger.
From being dictator Of national
economy, DR.. Hjalmar Schacht. presi-
dent Of the Reichsbank and economics
minister, now clearly has become
"vice dictator" an infinitely less i'm
portant post, but perhaps for that very
reason a considerably more comfort
able one. He will continue to plav a
leading part in German economic al
fairs, but no longer the leading part
The masses of the German people
paid and are still paying for II tiers S
first "four-year plan" They paid
| for it essentially in terms of 4 low
cred standard of living The masses
are now paying almost all they can be
expected to pay for some time to
come. The classes will pay for the
second four-year plan. Gen. Goering
is the man to make them do it.
In putting this new plan into effect
Gen. Goering probably will use to a
large extent the same general tech
nique he already has employed sew.
eral times in his capacity of dictator
OF German currency and raw mate
rial problems He will call together
the heads Of industries connected
with the production of each commod-
ity and serve notice on them that
they must produce given amount By
a given time. and find the capital anc
agree on the methods for doing So
and report their progress to him by &
certain deadline.
He has just given the artificia
gasoline industry a taste Of hi
methods. Research chemists employed
by one company perfected a nev
process by which gasoline could b
produced at q cost of Is or II
pfennigs per liter instead Of q
pfennigs per liter which it was costinl
the industry by its old processes. Gen
| Goering informed the entire industr.
that it must begin using the new pro
cess at once.
Spokesman replied that they needed
at least six months to acquire new
equipment. finance and change owe
and begin producing by the cheape
method. Il am not interested il
waiting six months nor In your reason
for wanting to do So" said Gen. Goer
ing. You will begin using the nev
process Immediately. And they hav
done so.
Copyright. 1861