Evening star., 1943-03-29
Dr.. Loudon Proposes.
Postwar Trustees
For Axis Industries
International Control
Needed to Bar Their
Reurmine, He Says
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Establishment of an internationa,
trusteeship over the postwar indus
tries Of Germany and other Axis
nations, to prevent their rearming
was proposed last night by DR.. Alex
ander Loudon, the Netherlands
Ambassador.
DIR. Loudon, representing nation
which has grim reason to know
about Prussian militarism, offered
the proposal in an address before
the Defense Committee of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton.
Discussing the problem of what to
do with Germany when the United
Nations have crushed the Axis, the
Ambassador said, Il do not advo-
cate determination or deportation;
both would lower the United Nations
to the Germans level
Re-education of the German must
be envisaged, he said, but that "is
very long process" and insufficient
protection for the near future.
Rendering the German war poten-
tial impotent cannot be left to the
German nation nor to the German
government" DR.. Loudon said. and
"the heart of the problem is there
fore Germany'S industry"
Outlines Trusteeship Plan.
This brought him to the suggested
international trusteeship for indus
tries in non-enemy nations.
He proposed that:
The trusteeship control of ma
tority of the capital stock of corpor-
ations and that no new capital is
sues, shares or bonds be offered the
public of those countries unless the
trusteeship obtains at least 81 per
cent of them.
The trustees might be composed
Of statesmen and business men of
the United Nations, the latter with
out actual ties with similar business
In their own country"
The shares to be placed in trust
might be computed to each nation
on the basis of its claims against
Germany. Italy, Japan and their
Allies. The United States would
have, besides its direct claim, a
great indirect claim as a conse-
quence of the lease e-lend help given
to the allied warfare; Britain would
have a substantial claim with re-
gard to the damage done by German
bombings and the very high costs of
SO many years of active warfare;
Poland, France, Holland, all the
other occupied nations would have
their own important claims based
on occupation costs and other
actual damage done. The total of
these claims will possibly be so enor-
nous as to exceed even the total
capital value of the Axis incorpor-
ated industry, mining and ship
ping"
THE body of the trustees should
be empowered to market the indus
trial products abroad, thereby Gre
ating stable employment conditions
with consequent 1ourishing home
markets"
Germany to Seek Sympathy.
The main policy of the trustees,
DR.. Loudon said, would not be pri-
marily the financial reimbursements.
of the claims, but rather the super
vision of the whole Axis industry
so that no new rearmaments can
take place"
When the Germans see defeat
come, DR.. Loudon said, they will,
as a high-placed German expressed
himself, organize sympathy-and
they are already at it right now.
Very significant in this respect is
what they are doing in Holland
individual Germans are going
to Dutch people asking for certif1-
Gates that they have behaved cor
rectly-and those testimonials had
better be given, or else! 1t is clear
what purpose those certificates of
deCeny' are going to serve"