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...British made some difficulties too. They did not like a quiet U.S. suggestion that their plans to socialize Ruhr mines be postponed to permit immediate maximum production of coal. This week, the New York Times, in an editorial called "Production Comes First," crisply described some obstacles...
...Ruhr. M. Schneiter had a point. Coal was the central issue at Paris. And coal meant the Ruhr and Germany. Without Ruhr coal, and without the German industrial output which depends on Ruhr coal, the rest of Europe cannot recover. A Swiss delegate explained it this way: "We have found that Country A needs something which Country B can provide, on condition Country B can get something from Country C, which the latter can provide if she can get something from Country D; and Country D can provide that something-on condition she gets something which only Germany...
...zone, a young man who made a name as a writer under Naziism works in a rock quarry and wonders how he can ever bring up three growing boys. In the British zone, a Ruhr miner washes his coal-streaked body in the daylight after eight hours' work underground, then sets out for the countryside to trade some clothes for bread. In the French zone a winegrower watches police break into his garage. They haul out ten cases of wine which he had set aside to sell to an American for cigarets...
...Today this exchange is disrupted. German coal miners in the Ruhr produce less because they get less food. Italy's fruit and wheat would go a long way to boosting the morale of Ruhr miners and to raising their output. On the other side, German coal and steel would do a lot to improve northern Italy's industrial production...
...dusty country road near Kempen in the British zone (the story went), a wasted woman struggled under a heavy rucksack toward the Ruhr. Pastor X stopped her, guessed what she was carrying, said: "You have been lucky to find so many potatoes, my good woman. Many visitors come to our district from the Ruhr and return empty-handed...