Evening star., 1944-11-13
Senate Group Favors
Stripping Germany
OF Heavy Industries
Kilgore Subcommittee
Offers Postwar Proposal
To Crush imperialism

A proposal that postwar Ger
many be stripped of it's NUM-
tions plants and other heavy in
dustries which have fed the Nazi
war machine has been made by a
Senate Military Affairs Subcom
mittee headed by Senator Kill
gore, Democrat, of West Virginia
In report made public last night
after months of study the group de-
clared:
To crush German imperialism
permanently and thus permit q
peaceful and democratic Germany
to arise. the structure and contro
of German industry must be so al
tered that it cannot serve again tn,
purposes of war.
This is as fundamental as mill
tary occupation and political che nge
The monopolies and cartels which
are the artery of supply in the Naz
system must be broken up within
Germany.
Milder Than Morgenthau Plan.
"A real disarmament program re.
quires not only the dismantling oi
all direct munitions industries. but
also the dismantling and removal
to the devastated area of Europe OF
the primary industries. including the
metallurgical and chemical indus
tries
Acting Secretary of State Stet-
tinlus refused to comment on the
report at his press conference today
and said he had requested a copy
for study.
The Kilsore plan. observers pointed
out, is not so stringent as that re-
portedly proposed recently by Sec
retary of the Treasury Morgenthau
The Morgenthau plan would have
stripped Germany of all industries
and made it purely an agricultural
nation. The Senate groups scheme
apparently would affect only heavy
industries capable of making NUM-
tions, but would leave the Reich
plants for making peacetime con-
sumner goods.
The Kilgore Commit .eport also
stressed the need of destroying the
German cartel system. as a result OF
which Nazi industrialists have beer
able through patents to control the
supply of many commodities abroad
Defining cartels as economic
treaties or international trade
agreements made by private busi-
ness concerns Ito safeguard profit.
and investments by eliminatins
competition" the committee sale
they should be outlawed as "a neces-
sary first step to clear the way for 8
new expansionist era in foreign eco.
nomic relations"
Threat Seen in Cartel System.
Current proposals for mainte
nance of the cartel system seek tt
disavow the old dangerous fea.
lures" but they still "envision thu
continuance of the old controls ane
relationships" the committee said.
"A cartel system dominated b,
American or British interests woult
eventually produce the same unde
sirable results as the one exploited
by the Germans. 1t would leopard
ize peace and jobs in the postwa,
worlo and soon bring us face t,
face with the possibility of a thir,
even more destructive world war.
Positive measures to promot,
world trade after the war, the com
mittee asserted, should be par.
alleled by common action to elimi
nate trade barriers"
Members of the committee which
drafted the report, in addition t.
Senator Kilgore. are Senator
Thomas, Democrat, of Utah: John.
son, Democrat. of Colorado; Wall.
gren. Democrat, of Washington
Murray, Democrat, of Montana: Hol.
man, Republican, of Oregon: Rever.
comb, Republican, of West Virginia
and Wilson. Republican, of Iowa.