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...Poky. Aged (75) Hermann Roechling, who ran the Saar industries through World Wars I & II, became the first industrialist in history to be convicted of waging aggressive war. In Baden-Baden, an international court found him guilty on three counts as boss of Hitler's steel industry from 1942 on, sentenced him to seven years in prison. (Acquitted by another court on the same charge but awaiting a verdict on two other war crime counts were Alfred Krupp, No. 1 Nazi gunmaker, and eleven Krupp directors...
...Heavy industries are no longer the scape-goat of post-war planning but receive the coal with which Potsdam had intended to bolster Allied countries, French recovery receives a staggering set-back under the new plan, for Germany now retains 79 percent of its own mined coal and the Saar mines fall far short of the production needed to smelt down Alsace Lorraine ore. France must either pay $22 per ton for American coal or do without the fourteen million tons her industries lack this year. Meanwhile the wisdom of building up German industry at this time becomes increasingly doubtful...
...Without a Heart. In Moscow, Molotov followed essentially the same line when the question of the Saar came up last week. The U.S. and Britain favored its economic annexation by France. Molotov, mindful of his French party comrades, did not directly reject the suggestion, but, even more mindful of his German comrades, he sidestepped, and soon the diplomats were discussing the huge Russian reparations demands. That was where everyone had come in. Cried Andrei Vishinsky at a press conference: "A treaty without adequate reparations is like a man without a heart...
...first overseas press conference, Candidate Stassen was caught in no snap judgments. But at a private session he hammered away at one generalization: Europe's problems are essentially economic; at the heart of them is coal. Said he: "That leads you to the Saar and the Ruhr and Silesia. I'll have to go to Germany and Poland before I know the answer to that...
Koestler's only hope, more a counsel of despair than a hope, is for a West European federation-including France, the Low Countries, a de-Francoed Spain, Italy, the Rhine province, the Saar (which France, without Big Three permission, in effect separated from Germany last fortnight with a customs cordon). "This," wrote Koestler, "is not the occasion to discuss the merits and demerits of such a plan; I mention it merely to avoid closing on a note of despair. For so desperate has the situation in Europe become that pessimism, like defeatism in times of war, is no longer...