CARTELS CONDEMNED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 37, 14 February 1944, Page 5

CARTELS CONDEMNED

AMERICAN OFFICIAL

WASHINGTON, February 12,

Britain and America could achieve during reconstruction the same spirit of co-operation which had been achieved during the war only if British and American monopolists were controlled along with German-dominated combinations, said the Assistant Attor-ney-General (Mr. Berge) in a speech. "Economic reciprocity and good neighbour policies are of little value in promoting peaceful economic relations when those who create cartels hold themselves above the law and seek to control legislation and government Rolicy in countries where they operate," he added. - While the United States was trying to deyelop sound friendships in South America, American cartels there gave German industry a free hand, thus helping to create a German sphere of influence from which emerged propaganda, espionage, and subversive activities.

Criticising the economic appeasement at Dusseldorf shortly before Germany's invasion of Czechoslovakia, Mr. Berge said that British and German industrial overlords agreed to co-operate in eliminating competition and fixing prices. "We must realise that if the Dusseldorf programme prevails after the war it wili produce a third world war," he said.