JAP INDUSTRIES
Proposed Elimination
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.
The Reparations Commissioner (Mr Edwin Pauley) urged President Truman to authorise the complete' removal from Japan of all war industries and rubber, aluminium and magnesium plants, and to permit substantial removals from 11 other categories of Japan’s economy. Mr Pauley, following what he called the “principle of severity- combined with fairness”, asked the President to allow the Japanese to keep 18 industries, and for the Allies 1 to determine later what to do about textile machinery, synthetic fibres, cotton, paper and'pulp. The industries Mr Pauley listed aS subject to substantial removals are:— Electric power, iron and steel, iron ore and ferro-alloy minerals, copper, machine tools, chemicals, heavy electrical machinery, industrial explosives, ■ communications and communi-
cations equipment, railroad equipment and rolling-stock, shipbuilding and merchant shipping.
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Grey River Argus, 19 November 1946, Page 5
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