Evening star., 1946-01-09
Germany Still hreatens*
YOU and YOURS

and 1VOnS
By HENRY moReENrHAu, Ja.
Former United States Secretary Of the Treasury
My own program for ending the menace Of Ger.
man aggression consists, in its simplest terms, OF
depriving Germany of all heavy industries. The
reason for selecting heavy industries is that with
them Germany quickly and terribly convert
once more to war Without them no matter how
savage her aggressive aims may be, she cannot
make war.
First of course, there was the actual manufacture
of the weapons of modern war The second role Of
heavy industry in the German plan of aggression
economic blitzkrieg. The heavy hand of German
power was laid upon the economy of her neghbors
and throughout Europe industries withered, scar.
city grew, fear multiplied.
The Road 10 New Wars
The notion that German heavy industry is indis.
pensable to the well being of Europe is myth nur.
tured by German propaganda over many years.
Among those who trying to keep it alive today
the men who did business with the German
carels in the past, to the profit of themselves and
the ruin or near ruin of their countries
Moreover, those who propose to maintain strong
Germany bulwark against Russia simply
blind followers of the folly of Munich with no pro.
gram for the world except the arguments suspicious
and fears of the appeasers.
Road to Peace
Cermany's road to peace leads to the farm. The
men and women in the German labor force can best
serve themselves and the world by cultvating the
German soil.
If Germany makes serious attempt to feed her.
self she can do so. If we feed them ourselves the
Germans will not undertake the necessary agricul.
tural reform They will, if they run true to their
form of the last hundred years. prefer to intrigue
for return of heavy industry and war.
Germany must be disarmed in her own mind as
well in reality The most fertile soil for the seed of
democracy would be those Germans who know it s
useless to plot for relationships, and conquest.
The elementary lesson for the German people is that
there is planning and working for war because
they will not have the means to wage it.
When the possibilities for new aggression have
been removed, the big educational task can begin.
Better than any board of censorship or commissioner
of education in preventing renewed propaganda for
German militarism would be the elimination of the
heavy ndustriast and the Junker-the first by de.
sruction of his factories the second by breaking up
his estates These two groups will then be poweress
to finance the of education to which they have
contributed wealth and influence in the past.
Survival Demands Action Now
We ourselves are neither much more intelligent
much more moral than the generation that
thought it had ended war forever in 1913 Our only
advantage them is that we have the benefit Of
their experience That has taus. us to distrust the
efficacy of piece of machinery which is not con.
nected to any source of power. The apparatus for
preventing German aggression can contain set Of
economic and political and moral controls. 1t will
have to contain more-destruction OF heavy German
industry. But the whole thing will be inanmate use.
less, unless it is hooked up the driving force of
strong and lasting United Nations will to peace.