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...Plan. Last week TIME'S Washington Bureau asked the office of Assistant Secretary of State Major General John H. Hilldring, the official primarily responsible for the success of the American occupation, whether the U.S. had worked out with the British a specific plan for revitalization of the Ruhr. How many tons of coal had the U.S. targeted for the next twelve months in the Ruhr? How many tons of steel? How many factories, repaired, restored and reconverted from armament to useful production? What were the U.S. and Britain planning to contribute to get the program going? What exports...
...specific proposals for territorial changes. Königsberg and adjacent areas must go to Russia, as already agreed. Silesia and other eastern German regions, however, would not necessarily go to the Soviet-dominated government of the Poles, although now administered by Poland. The Saar would go to France. The Ruhr and the Rhineland, however, would remain German...
...evidences of sore temptation to join with us and the British on terms we can agree to. This is natural, for we have both a carrot and a stick to move them. The carrot is reparations, desperately needed to supplement the war-damaged Soviet economy. The stick is the Ruhr, the greatest industrial area in Europe, which the Kremlin policy-makers deeply fear to see under the complete control of the Western powers. To secure any change of Soviet policy in Germany by these means is our maximum objective. But if the carrot and the stick do not do their...
...Russians beat mightily on the drum of German unity, especially after Molotov delivered his July 10 stump speech at Paris. "Without the Ruhr and Rhineland Germany cannot live," the Reds said, and the cry was echoed by their German friends. "What are they shouting about?" said most Germans, "they have already had their pound of flesh from Silesia and East Prussia...
Haven't we all learned from letting Hitler march into the Ruhr, from Munich, from many another failure that the best way to get into a big war is to go too far in trying to avoid a smaller...