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...German Social Democratic Party of being nationalistic itself. . . ." No nationalist, Schumacher urged German unity on European as much as on German grounds: "If Europe is to become or stay united ... Germany must be united. . . . We repeat our determination to pay our reparations, and we are distressed that the Ruhr has now become a center of neurosis in international relations. . . . We recognize the necessity for the hundred percent destruction of German war industry. But we must be able to build up a constructive industry of peace...
...Russians wanted "delivered as quickly as possible" $2,000,000,000 worth of goods annually. Obviously, this would be impossible unless Ruhr iron and steel production became available for making reparations goods. The U.S. thought Russia's demands too high, was likely to counter with a much lower offer. But most observers believed that the U.S. would eventually pay a reasonable price for Russian agreement...
Said a skeptical British officer, in Berlin after a year in the shattered Ruhr: "The realities in the Ruhr are still not enough food, still insufficient housing, still not enough coal to produce steel to produce coal to produce steel, still no incentive or hope for miners who daily see Allied reparations teams earmarking plants for removal. The situation in the Ruhr just doesn't change and it can't change any more than a man can pull himself up by his own bootstraps, particularly if you take away the bootstraps...
...State Department has yet sat down with the British to work out execution of the policy the two countries agreed to in August. Nor has the State Department even begun to spell out the specific U.S. objectives under the Byrnes policy. The only effort to tackle revitalization of the Ruhr so far has been the interzonal agreements on communications and administration, between Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay and the British, which were announced in Germany last fortnight...
Assistant Secretary Hilldring's advisers agree that the British have been completely unable to get smoke pouring out of the Ruhr stacks, and that if the policy stated boldly by Byrnes is to be anything but a grim failure, it must be supported, at least through its critical initial stages, by U.S. resources, food and know...