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Intolerable Situation. Since mid-May, when the first Paris meeting failed, no progress had been made by the chancelleries or by the deputies of the foreign ministers on the basic questions: 1) what type of regime to give Germany; 2) whether or not to internationalize the steel-producing Ruhr; 3) how to solve Yugoslavia's claims to Trieste; 4) on what to base peace treaties with Italy and the other former Axis satellites...
German Communists are yelling for the Ruhr more loudly than any other Germans; French Communists are yelling for the Ruhr more loudly than any other Frenchmen. It pays on both sides of the boundary, and doesn't matter much to Moscow, which knows that the Ruhr's fate will be decided by the Big Three, not by France or Germany. Of course, on questions really important to Moscow, foreign Communists reverse their nationalist line. For instance, genuine French nationalists see a military advantage in France's participation in a Western bloc of nations. But French Communists bitterly...
...million. There was no prospect of reducing that burden unless the British and Americans found a way of putting Germans to work. In the western zones, production was in a slow downward spiral which might become a rapid decline within six months. Some figures from the British-administered Ruhr told the story. On March 3 the average miner there was producing 2.76 tons of coal a day. On March 4, the British cut his rations by 15.5%. The miner's productivity dropped on March 10 to 2.55 tons...
Much of the Ruhr's food used to come from eastern Germany, now in the Russian zone. The British will not get industrial production on the upswing until there is either 1) real economic cooperation between the zones, or 2) acceptance of the split, followed by a positive U.S., British and French policy for getting their part of Germany going. The present level of German production was so low (and so likely to drop further) that not even the most vindictive Morgenthau-er could reasonably object to emergency recovery measures...
...meeting in Paris in a conference proposed by Byrnes, to thrash out the issues which the Paris Peace Conference will have to consider and which the Ministers' deputies in London have been unable to settle in twelve weeks of discussion. Italian reparations, Trieste, the Dodecanese, Bulgaria, Tripolitania, the Ruhr were all issues on which no agreement had been reached. And the Peace Conference was still scheduled to open...