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...need for the new economic plan was underlined by a crisis which mushroomed 150 miles to the north. Hungry Ruhr workers began a series of food strikes; at Solingen. Essen, Düsseldorf, Mühlheim, and then in Munich in the U.S. zone, workers laid down their tools. Food distribution had been bumbled. Local German governments paid scant attention to the food quotas set up by the present bizonal Economic Council, which was powerless to enforce its orders. The new economic courts, invested with power superior to the individual states, would be able to prosecute and penalize the state...
...lean and hungry economy of Britain, coal and steel production was climbing. In the Ruhr, coal production reached a daily rate of 300,000 tons-up 40% since last summer. These were signs of Europe's efforts to help itself-as it should and must under ERP. They were also indications that the U.S. could make progress in its colossal gamble abroad...
Molotov: "The hidden reparations and economic privileges which the British, American and French authorities receive in the Western zones . . . are usually passed over in silence.... Coal was bought at cheap rates from the Ruhr . . . and exported to other countries. The British authorities . . . received enormous profits...
...Truth: All proceeds from sales of Ruhr coal and other German products are poured back into Germany...
...down the occupation policy for Germany as a special adviser to General Lucius Clay in 1945. As much as any man, he did the spadework for the new U.S. policy in Germany (by talking France into raising the level of industry; by recommending increased U.S. supervision in the Ruhr in return for more U.S. dollars...