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of World War III denied that the
Morgenthau proposal contemplated
the creation of a wholly agricultural
Germany. Writing in a recent re-
port of the society, Christopher La
Fargo said: ITO attempt to reduce
industrialized Germany to a purely
agricultural nation would be simply
silly. 1t has been suggested. and
properly, that she be forced to be-
come more of an agricultural ma
ton than before, keeping her light
industries Chose not translatable
into war MANUFACTURED and being
deprived of her heavy ones. That is
simply good common sense. ," ."
Whatever the merits or dement's
Of the Morgenthau plan, the public
quarrels it generated illustrated the
delicacy Of the entire German prob
lem.
Proposals to destroy the iron and
steel industry in Germany are re-
jected by DR.. Moulton and DR.
Marlio on the ground that this
would produce serious economic con-
sequences both in and outside Ger
many. The suppression of the Ger.
man machine-tool industry anc
transfer of existing equipment te
other countries is viewed as imprac.
tical because the diversity and de.
Capitalization Of the industry woulc
make evasion easy, and because es.
sential tools could be secretly i'm.
ported.
On the other hand the control OF
the aluminium industry is considered
both essential and feasible. They
recommend the suppression of alu-
minum ingot production, allowing
Germany to fabricate aluminium
products but barring ingots because
they can so readily be utilized for
war material. The control would be
made more effective by supervising
the quantity of aluminium ingots
that could be imported. In also
urging the prohibition of synthetic
oil production, which now supplies
Germany with more than 40 per
cent of her oil, it is contended that
while new synthetic oil plants might
be built in the event of war this
would require at least two years, an
important time factor.
While Moulton and Marlio dis
card suggestions for the complete
suppression of Germany's heavy
metallurgical industry because "the
economic repercussions would affect
the entire European economic sys-
stem," the Senate's Subcommittee
on War Mobilization headed by Har-
ley M. Kilgore of West Virginia has
taken an opposite view, even includ-
ing the chemical industries among
those it would ban. "A real disarm-
ament program" the committee re-
ported, requires not only the dis
mantling of all direct munitions in
dustries but also the dismantling
and removal to the devastated areas
OF Europe of the primary indirect
munitions industries, including the
metallurgical and chemical indus
tries"
Views of Senators.
Immediately after the military
victory an international authority
should take over the economic con-
trolls formerly held by Nazi cartel
lists, the committee said. "The dem
ocratic nations must not again be
misled into believing that Ger
man industry is politically neutral,
or that German aggression is the
preoccupation solely of political
fanatics. To crush German imper-
ialism permanently and thus permit
a peaceful and democratic Germany
to arise, the structure and control
of German industry must be so al
tered that it cannot again serve the
purposes Of war. This is as funda-
mental as military occupation and
political change. The monopolies
and cartels which are the artery of
supply in the Nazi system must be
broken up within Germany.