The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-10
CERMlW INDUSTRY
ON II E WAY BACK
BY WILL lam H. sTR1Nrrp

| taIy NoVeIh tA'eAs VI IL in
Frankfurt ,im Main, Germsr.@
had quite a Sleuthing Job on tho;,,
hands the other day. A director -.
I. G. Farh n the big chemios,
trust, had 8 cpuestered vital com
pany docura rents in 90 differs.
hiding places around town, the,
discovered. 1t seems that Co..
many's inda sarialists don't wan,
US to learn tout their plan, for
a postwar g oneback."
Here in Wal bingtou the Kilgor.
Committee haa: performed an ~.
cellent service in telling the pub.
lie all about those same dark
schemes. Day after day, in tn.
aforementioned Senate Offic,
Building, Senate r Harley N. XII.
cores committee has been elicit.
ing an amazing al ray Of testimony
from such kpcWll dgeable men a,
BERNARD Baruch, economic adv,.
er to two wartime Presidents; vii.
liam L. Clayton, Assistant Secre.
tary of State; Fora gn Economic
Administrator Leo =. Crowley
and Mai. Gen. John II. Hilldrinc
War Department Civil Affairs Di.
vision.
This testimony, pieAc ed together
reveals unnustakably that the
German industrialists have Very
definitely survived the wal; that
they are now and flor many
months have been, eng .ged in a
shrewd, persistent, aggressive e.
fort to reactivate their factories.
The Kilgore testimony has also
shown how little damaged is Ger.
many's industrial plant. At Co.
llogne, for instance, Military Gov.
eminent officials first thou ght the
Ford factory there was bad " bat
tered. Closer inspection re vealed
that falling walls and root, had
buried the heavy machinery with
layers of brick and mortar which
actually protected it.
The United States and it's allies
intend to cut Reich industry down
to pre-Hitler size, and then some
to distribute surplu S Factories
around to Germany's needy neigh
bors to forbid German marufac.
ture Of vital war commod tiles,
like synthetic rubber and aircratt,
A Iong-tern plan to this effect will
be presented to President Trr'map
by State Department and IEG
planners before the end of sum.
mer. But these weil-laid plans can
be spoiled at several points if adj.
ministrators fail to heed the Kill
gore warning:
/. Our Army is allowing Ger
2 man factories to manuta cture HIM
tied amounts of equipment to sup
l ply our troops and German cl'
! villains. Some Army officials have
2 been rather taken in by the re-
e sponsiveness Of German managers
4 to our orders, speed in produe.
ton, excellence of their product.
"If we order film from the
French, they shrug their shoulders
and say they doubt they can pro-
duce it; if we order from the Ger
: mans, they scurry around from
} plant to plant until they find just
Y what we want" one officer OBJ
/. served.
: 2. It is also argued that Eu'
ropes economy will suffer if Ger
r many is reduced in industrial size
;. that the liberated States will sui
] fer with the rest. Bernard Barueh
!. rather effectively answers in MS
. committee testimony W h e n ne
4 asks:
2 where has German economic
: influence been felt and smiles .eit
: to that country's people-in 70
= land, Romania, Hungary, Greece
{ Yugoslavia usuria Italy
France Holland, Belgium, Nor
: way, Denmark"
. 3. German industry's greatest
chance to stage a comeback lies
t in the neutral nation and Latm'
= American States-the lands out
side the Reich As Assistant eecri'
| rotary of State Clayton testltlea'
: the United States with its allles
= has made a powerful drive 10
: checkmate Nazi efforts to build
: economic "safehavens" abroad
and has succeeded in closing on.
hundreds OF German spearheaa
= firms in Latin America. But Ar
:, gentina, most industrialized OF any
Latin S tate. hasn't completely
eliminated a single Axis firm. :,
Germany will be permllteo
some postwar industry - NANNY
, the manufacture of harmless con-
sumer goods. Eventually its nous
trial renaissance will be greater
but not while there's any chance
that Reich industry will behave a.
described by Senator Kilgore Wnen
he said: Time and again IN '"s
, past, when the rules of trade anu
competition would DICTATE ols
course of action to q German MIN
!, in a foreign land, when Nazl a.
gression d c at d an oppoSi,,,,
course, the German concern Wou'u
follow the Nazi will. "-Chr'S'id'
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