EUROPEAN RECOVERY

Chronicle (Levin), 29 September 1947, Page 8

EUROPEAN RECOVERY

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Details Of.How Nations Will Help Themselves

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Eeeeived Sunday, 7 p.m. ' PARIS, Sept. 27. ; The ftxll report of the 16-natiok eonfefence on tHe- Marskall plan for Enrbpekfi recPvery, was issued today It gives details of produetion targets already annbiinfeed knd is called "The Pirst Vblume of the Report of tke Eiiropean Committeet of Econontio ■ Cooperation. " Bfitisk targets, in addition to those aiiiiounced, iiiClude a 20 per celit. in crba^e iii the -livestock population and ihe largest inerease in poultry of any bf'the 16 bountfies. Britain is also a1 tke top of the list for shipbuilding. All 16 natioris hope to make good by 1951 the 22j000,000 gfoss tons of ship|)ing lost during the war. Tke result, if tke target is reached, is tkat Britain in 1951 will have 17,000,000 tons of rnerchant skipping wkile Norway, next bn tke list, Will have 3,800,000 tons. Discussing the Britisk plan to inbrease coal exports to Europe from 16,000,000 tons in 1948 to 29,000,000 tons by 1951j tke report says tke British plan is to inerease the total oulout in 1951 by 50,000,000 tons over tke 1948 ligure. This will be done by extending the labour force, an exoensive "capital development incluiling 20 new sinkingSj and the intensified use Of modern meckanised metkods. Mining maehinery and' supplies of all kinds ceqnired for this ma.ioi* effort will exceed in eost £250,000,000. Nearly all the items fequired will be produced in Britain itselfi Coal production in tke AngloAmeriean zones of Germany will be incleased by (50,000,000 tons but tlie devastation In tke mining areas is so great it will not be possible to regain tke 1938 output. Coal production in tke Saar will reac.h tke 1938 level in 1948. and in 1951 will be 20 per cenl. above the 193S level. Preneh coal production already ex ceeds prewar and France expects tha, a further expansion of 25 per cent. or 12,000,000 tons, will lie attained by 195i. The general expectation is tlmt coal :iroduction in tke participating countries and Western Germany will l)e in 1951 30,000,000 tons higher than in 1938. Britain kas aslted tke technical committee on manpower for 120,000 European- immigrants of whom 115,000 should be skilled and 5000 of theso coalminers. The committee estimated that 2,555,000 .persons in Europe wished to emigrate but that onJy 5 per cent. were skilled. No qualified miners were available. The Associated Press correspondeni says tke report makes elear that the I objective of the 16 planning nations is simple and direet. They want Ameri- . ean moiiey so that they can buy American goods heavily during the next fonr years but-..as early as possible tkey want to make it possible to buy less in America and sell more to Ameriea. The report gives the production targets for the individual countries anil does not break dowij tke lists of Western European requirements. During the next four years it is estimated these will include £300,000;000 worth of iron and steel, £100,000,000 worth of timber and wood pulp, £18,000,000 worth of cotton, wool and non-ferrous ores, hides and leather, all from the United States. Tke report says tke Ruhr output is essential to European economy. Tkc German potential must not be used so as constitute a tlireat to European security but tke report expects difficulties in taking Germany olf production if heavy goods and putting her to proiucing lighter consumer goods of a strictly non-military quality. The reoort says an excessive concentration in consumer goods .production in Gernany miglit create insoluable probems for. contries wkick traditionally made and supplied those types of goods. Nevertkeless, tke population of Westrn Germany "would be from 8,000,000 ;-o IOjOOOjMOO greater than prewar and inereas.ed trade would "be necessary if iniy to meet minimum food and raw material requirements. The "farming targets for Western1 Germany would mean great increases in jresent produetion but even by 1951 Western Germany would have 13 .pe.i* , ient. fewer -liVestock than in 19.38, 30 per cent. fewer pigs and 40 per cent. ' fewer poultry.