Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...views on the role of the Schumann Plan in the European economic picture. Rudolf Renger, an official of the Social Democratic party, and an Inspector in the Civil Service of the West German state of Schleswig-Holstein, criticized postwar Allied policies towards Germany, stressing the forced deindustrialization of the Ruhr and the lack of benefits for Germany under the Marshall Plan...
...atomization of society has its good side: social mobility. Many a professional soldier has lost his Prussianized kinks after working in the Ruhr mines, many a previous failure has proved himself in the tough scramble of postwar life. Healthy distrust of outworn German codes is surging. Fanaticism for the state is finished. On this point, the Germans are explicit: "Wir sind nicht noch einmal die Dummen" (We're not going to be played for suckers again...
...West Germans' desire for trade and of the opportunities for smuggling was working so well that occupation authorities were considering stringent measures. As a sample, the U.S. ECA mission to Germany took steps last week to withhold 6,000,000 marks in ECA counterpart funds from a Ruhr steel firm that has been engaging in illegal trade with the Communists. It was the first, but probably not the last, real countermeasure against the Wollweber apparatus...
French sponsors of the Schuman Plan and American cartel-busters told a six-nation conference in Paris that the big combinations of Ruhr coal & steel producers must be broken up before the Plan can be put into effect. The German industrialists, supported by the German Socialists and trade unions, argued that the old cartel arrangements were economical and efficient, that any change would give...
...involve itself still deeper against the Chinese on a hunch that Russia will not honor its mutual defense treaty with China. They wonder whether U.S. industrial capacity will be able to support a two-front war against China on the one side and Russia, in possession of the Ruhr, on the other...