Mr Krupp’s Visit

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28536, 15 March 1958, Page 3

Mr Krupp’s Visit

Sir, —The world is now interde-,, pendent and an economic whole. , If Mr Alfred Krupp can spend',. £3.000,000, enough to keep 3000 men fully employed at £lOOO a”, year, and build a steel works » here in New Zealand, so much-,, the better for New Zealand. World War II was due to the gross error of trying to impose a colonial status on fin energetic, • intelligent. and hard-working people—the Germans. Under the ■* rules of capitalism, the Germans - took the only road out. Mr Krupp, ' and his business, merely responded to the demands of the . “system.” We have yet to breed a tiger without teeth and claws. - —Yours, etc., RALPH S. WHEELER. - Timaru, March 14, 1858.

Sir,—Why does the carpenter’s union object to Mr Krupp visiting this country Wtere not all * criminals punished after the last war? Is not one a free man again? -• after being released from prison?'. If they don’t agree with the • punishment imposed on Mr Krupp, they should attack the body who tried him, not the ac- . cused. Why do we always have - to look back at one war or look ‘ forward to another? Can we not; just live in peace?—Yours, etc., ALL FOR JUSTICE, e March 14, 1958.

Sir,—ln 1951 the U.S. Hight Commissioner for Germany com-' muted the sentences of A. Krupp, and his directors to time already' served. After six years at Landsberg prison Krupp began rebuilding, financed in part by proceeds of the Allied sale of Krupp properties. As the price of regaining his freedom he was given a five-year period to sell six large coal, steel, and iron-ore plants which would destroy the vertical integration of his industrial empire. That period expires this month and only two plants have been sold. In the meantime Krupps have been pushing their “Point 4ft”. plan to industrialise backward nations, including Turkey,. India, Russia, Greece, Pakistan, Spain, Thailand., Bolivia, Indonesia: also develop-* ment works in Ungava. Quebec,, and South Africa. Concord mustreplace discord, economic integration replace political disintegra- • tion. The war system is man’s, greatest enemy, horse and buggy * politics his greatest insult.—L Yours, etc., WHITE WATERS. March 14, 1958. [Ray W. Collier may briefly reply, closing this correspondence.— l Ed., “The Press.”]