The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20

of the most important subjects to be discussed at the coming Big Three conference of President Tru- man, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin. General objectives for the peace terms to be imposed on Germany were written in broad outline at the Roosevelt Churchill Stalin meeting in Yalta last Feb ruary. But between the stating of these principles and their execu- tion there is an immense gap to be filled in with specific policies, and this subject has now become par ticularly hot.
 Testimony by State, War and Treasury experts before Senator Harley M. Kilgore's Military Affairs sub committee has just revealed that German roots for world econ- omic domination run deeper than most people had appreciated. Ger man industrialists may have secret ed billions of marks in Swiss bank accounts all over the world. German business houses still have hundreds of economic spearheads in Latin America, Spain, and other neutral countries. It is still possible for Ger many's big corporations to carry on research and do business through dummy companies, just as they did after the last war.
 NEED FOR SITTER
 TERMS INDICATED -.
 All these revelations have the ef- feet of building up new demands for the imposition of much stiffer final peace terms on Germany than may have at first been considered necessary. When such responsible citizens as Bernard M. Baruch de- mand long time occupation of Ger many, maximum reparations, full U. s. cooperation with Soviet Rus sia and the building up of all the other European states to higher standards of living than are per- mitted in Germany, then you know how great is the fear of a German comeback. Baruch gave the Kilgore Committee complete 14-point pro- gram for dealing with Germany. \ In the change of Secretaries, of State Byrnes for Stettinius and in the general preparations for the Big Three conference it is impos- sible to get responsible State, War or Treasury Department officials to comment on the Baruch proposals It is definitely known, however, that the administration does have plan for. the complete demobihzation of the German war potential. This U. S. plan is embodied in the confiden- tial orders which have been given General Dwight D. Eisenhower on how he shall govern the American zone in Germany. Any idea that the United States stumbled into Ger many without having any policy on how it would govern the occupied territory therefore appears to be wrong.
 'MORGENTHAU FLAW
 NORTHWESTERN
 It may have been generally for gotten, but last September there was considerable to-do on this sub- ject when so-called ";Sorgenthau plan" for dealing with Germany leaked out after Roosevelt's second Quebec conference with Churchill. It was then reported that Secre- tary of the Treasury Henry w. Nor genthau. Jr., favored reducing Ger many to the level of a purely agri- cultural economy.
 Actually, there was no one Mor- genthau plan Treasury experts have from time to time been called upon to prepare a number of re- ports on various phases of economic controls for Germany. Many of these ideas have been incorporated in the orders which have been given to General Eisenhower. Publication of these orders, revealing the formula for dealing with Germany, must now await their approval or their revision by the other occupy ing powers which, through the AL lied Control Council sitting in Ber- lin, will run the condominium. There's that word again.