DRASTIC MEASURES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25849, 21 May 1945, Page 5

DRASTIC MEASURES

GERMAN HEAVY INDUSTRIES STRICT LIMITATION PLANNED (Rec. 0.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 19. Germany will be so completely deindustrialised that reparations will be payable only in the form of labour or natural resources. This statement was made by Mr Ewin Pauley, who will renresent the United States on the German Reparations Commission, when interviewed by the New York HeraldTribune. Mr Pauley indicated that his views on Germany’s future, closely resembled the hard peace plans attributed to the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr Henry Morgenthau, favouring not only destruction of German heavy industry, but also the removal to Allied or liberated nations of any purely civilian industries capable of supplying more than the German people’s absolute minimum needs. Germany should also redistribute to the liberated peoples all the remaining food goods stolen from Europe in the last five years, leaving only enough to maintain a bare level of subsistence.

Mr Pauley declared that the Germans who had been living on the fat of Europe face an extensive shrinkage of their bloated waistlines in the months ahead. He stressed that every effort should be made to force the German people to feed and clothe themselves and then hand over to liberated peoples any surplus produced.