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Meeting Europe's coal shortage Professor Mason termed the most pressing difficulty. "England is now out of the coal export market," he explained, and the Ruhr Valley is operating at half the pre-war level. Poland, the third great source of Europe's solid fuel, is now shipping the greater part of its output East...
...steel made this year in the Ruhr Basin...
Stassen: The low production of coal in the Ruhr has caused a shortage of coal throughout Europe...
...Fast but Solid. The Soviet position was that Russia would not agree to Germany's economic unification unless Russia were assured German reparations from current German production. The French said that they would not agree to anything, either, unless they were assured coal from the Ruhr. This got George Marshall good & mad. He charged into the skirmish more fiercely than at any time since he came to Moscow...
...presented the Russian economic proposals for Germany. He revived the $10 billion reparations claim (first made at Yalta), but offered to spread payments over 20 years. As expected, Molotov stipulated that some German reparations would come out of current production; he demanded a Soviet share in control of the Ruhr. Most significantly, Molotov was willing to let German industry recover to a level represented by 12 million tons of steel production-capacity a year. (In the 1946 squabble over the German level of industry, the British proposed to leave Germany 12 million tons of steel production-capacity. The Russians countered...