AFTER=WAR PROBLEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1942, Page 3

AFTER=WAR PROBLEMS

RECONSTRUCTION MINISTRY. SET UP BY THE CZECHS. The Czechoslovak Ministry of Economic Reconstruction, first ministry of its kind to be set up by one of the Government-in-exile, made public, on September 6, a detailed account of first plans for the post-war rehabilitation of Czechoslovakia. The plan divides the country s postwar problems into two categories: those of immediate importance, or the short-term problems, and those of importance in the more remote future. The problems which will arise immediately after the war will need about six months after the war’s termination for their satisfactory solution, according to the ministry’s reckoning. The foremost task in this period will be that of dealing with the expected unemployment resulting from the termination of work in the armament industries and the return of workers from Germany. Problems involving food and . transportation will also be among the first dealt with under the ministry’s reconstruction programme. The ministry’s programme envisions the improvement of economic conditions at the end of the six-month P eriod - , The ministry, which is headed by Jaromir Necas, for a long time Minister jof Social Welfare in the pre-war Prague government and former chairman of the International Labour Office, expects close international collaboration in the economic field. It calls attention, in the report concerning its programme, to the lend-lease appropriation as an outstanding example of a new and original method of economic collaboration.