On the other hand, the Anglo-American authorities, by
separate action, and disregarding the quadripartite Control
Council, are carrying through their decision concerning
the one-sided restoration of certain branches of heavy
industry, for instance, the steel industry, enlisting the
services for this of old Hitlerite bosses, -former members
of German war-industry cartels and trusts.
Thus the Anglo-American authorities have already
proceeded to restore the war-industrial potential in the
western part of Germany, relying on the! support of old -
Hitlerite circles of industrial monopolists hostile to demo-
cratic Europe, and preventing the Control Council from
supervising this activity, which is a flagrant violation of the
Potsdam agreement.
Such a policy, far from having anything in common
with the rehabilitation of Germany's economy and with the
participation of Germany in the economic rehabilitation of
the European countries, creates opportunities for certain
foreign circles to make use of the western part of Ger-
many, and aibove all the Ruhr, as a strategic base for the
purpose of achieving supremacy in Europe.
This policy also finds expression in various forms of
pressure on the democratic countries oif Europe who are
defending their national independence and at the same
time the interests of peace and democracy.
It has now become known from M. Bidault's statement
that the French delegation has also associated itself with
the Anglo-American policy in" Germany.
The American plan for the carrying out of this policy
is now known. It is proposed to execute this plan in the
form of so-called "aid," reckoned in dollars. However,
since it is not desired to render this "aid" on the usual
credit terms, as the interests of expediting economic reha-
bilitation demand, and since, instead, this is being done by
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