GOERING’S NEW POST

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 87, 6 January 1940, Page 11

GOERING’S NEW POST

Supreme Director Of War Industry BERLIN, January 4. it is officially announced that FieldMarshal Goering has been appointed Supreme Director of War Industry. To ensure the greatest concentration and unification of economic policy all war and economic departments have been combined and a general council under the presidency of Field-Marshal Goering will have powers “to meet the British blockade with a superior chess move.”

'Marshal Goering’s return to the limelight as the new director of Germany’s economic policy is featured in the British Press. . . “The Tinies” comments that the Nazi Government is worried over the financing of the war, and as the difficulties mount she is transferring the blame from one leader to another. It is fitting, says “The Times,” that the man who has so often boasted that Nazi Germany could withstand the British blockade should now be charged with the task of proving this. The inroads into German economic vitality by the blockade and now the freezing over of the Danube River aie also referred to by “The Times.”. Normally Germany received its supplies from the Balkans via the Mediterranean and the North Sea. This route, however, was closed by the blockade, and the freezing over of the Danube would throw a heavy burden on the already overworked railways of Central Europe. I'he “Manchester Guardian” adopts a different attitude. It warns its readers against, underestimating the planned economy of Germany. She would have to tunkthe screw on tighter, and no one was better fitted for this task than Marshal Goering. But, says the paper, it would be dangerous to take comfort from Germany’s difficulties. Her economy had been built on a war basis; that of Great Britain had not yet entirely reached that stage.—By radio.