European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes february marshalls views on dismantling set Forth in letter give Vandenberg reasons behind rejection Washington rotary of state George Marshall has rejected de mands that the halt its Plant Dismant Fig and reparations program in Western marshals views were set Forth in a letter and accompanying memorandum to Arthur r Vandenberg r Chai Onan of the sen ate foreign relations com he warned that such action would break Faith with War time allies and increase me Cost of the european recovery the text of marshalls letter on dismantling of German plants in the zone follows february 1948 dear senator Vandenberg you will recall that during de Cember you indicated the intention of going fully into the Ger Man reparation and dismantling program in connection with the consideration of the european re covery program by the Senate foreign relations since that the department of state and of the army have to the Congress and to your committee a considerable amount of information on this subject during the course of my Testi Mony before your committee on i made a number of state ments in which i pointed out certain of the reasons in favor of continuing the dismantling and that further information and data years j continue to with draw in the allies Clear the japanese from the  pass la invasion route to president Roosevelt returns to from pfc 1946 China and France sign a treaty for the withdrawal of chinese troops from Northern Indochina and the end of extraterritorial rights in 281947 f the question of German assets in Austria delay austrian peace talks in would be furnished in the near army eluding Secretary under Secretary testified at length before your committee in support of the Dis mantling and reparation and especially with reference to the More technical aspects of the including its effects upon the German queried French on jail Lovett forr warded to you a copy of the memorandum prepared by the departments of state and of army if reply to the questions contained inhouse Resolution Thia Resolution called for answers to eleven questions concerning the dismantling and the replies together with the six attachments went into considerable i understand that the speaker of the House representatives read Lovetts covering letter of 34 before the it was pointed out in this letter that through both diplomatic channels and through the office of Mili tary government the Brit ish and French governments have been asked to Supply detailed in explains Why should continue program formation with regard to the status of the dismantling program in their respective areas of of although representatives of these governments have Given us As Eurance that they will make every Effort to furnish the re Quested we Are still awaiting receipt of detailed compelling reasons i believe that there Are cer Tain very compelling reasons in favor reparation program which May hot be fully under stood by the notwithstanding the quite extensive in formation which has been made available to the Congress through your committee Aud for this reason i am submitting to you herewith a further memorandum in which an Effort is to summarize the principal Points which Are i be Lieve that the information and arguments contained in this memorandum will be of use to your and it occurs to me private to employ this material in any further discussions of the program which May take with this thought in mind i am forwarding to you under sep Arate cover additional copies of the i should also like to bring to your attention the fact that the British and French governments Are understood to be opposed to modification of the present Dis mantling we know that they feel themselves justly entitled to and Are most anxious to receive delivery of their share of the plants which have been selected for dismantling and of the reciprocal deliveries of commodities which the soviets Are obligated to make to the West warns of result if All dismantling should be hated in our zone this would be interpreted As the abandonment of the reparation program As far As the United state Sis the probable result of such action would be thai the United states would find itself in sole opposition to the demands of the other 17 members of the Fite the German Plant above was one of 682 marked for dismantling for reparations by and it is the huge Fritz Werner machine tool Plant in it made anti aircraft guns during the and after me War Jade Auto wheels and books f i is now appear m halt of deliveries would cause wrangling group of and would proof ably faced with renewed car Marfus for extensive Reparato out of current the principles for which have contended so would thus be placed in instead of being Able to of the reparations problem in Short time and at relatively Little Cost we will be thrown Back into a situation similar to that followed in the Wake of world War with general and Long drawn out wrangling among the victorious particularly those nations Western Europe among which Unity of purpose and feeling i essential for european Plant probe underway for the foregoing at Well As the unfortunate political consequences within Germany which our officials there have declared would result from a Horary halt of dismantling Shoul it later be decided to resume Dis general Clay has not been instructed to discontinue no further allocations by the Allied control Thorley have been since the current inquiry was j at the same time an investigation is being made to Asci whether or not certain of the plants scheduled for Disman would be better Able to con Bute to the world Supply critical items if retained in Ger particularly those plants to which attention was called the report of the Herter con As you Are because soviet breaches of the Potsdam agreement we seeking adj quate arrangements with British regarding further Tion deliveries to the discussions Are in the meanwhile All deliveries from the zone to and Poland have been Sto except for the remnants of plants which were largely mantled and delivered before last meeting of the Council foreign faithfully yours m the stars and stripes m february William m Summers executive editor Kelly managing Ken Zumwalt sports editor Jack Elua executive Maurice Kirkwood distribution Jernard Mcguigan news bureaus b 47184 Berlin Wiesbaden 6027590 63845451 Brume Raven 41m78h6 can Aisch give 4mb5s6s m toe european edition is published daily at for toe occupation forces under the auspices of the troop information and education service Neucom Frankfurt the stare and correspondence should be addressed suits and stripes afo s maj to fee new York office should be sent to 641 Washington v this is not an official publication of the reentered As second class matter sept at the pos Ottice new under the act of March h Berlin works of German writers forbidden to Side burned by the nazis Are again being published in v they Are appearing in an anthology called forbidden and sixty thousand copies of this Book already have been printed in the american sector of it is the first anthology of its kind in postwar among the writers represented Are Thomas Stefan Emil Erich Remarque and Ernst in All More than 200 authors appear in a preface to the anthology expresses Hope that the banned writers will serve As a link be tween the spiritual traditions of Germany and the presently con fused German the names of these important men and women remain unknown to the younger the preface and it is High time Young germans became aware of these creative All Tot r Bai stars and unit Apo due to b a go enrolment for schooling under i Boffl v i have a question to task concerning enrolment  letter week urged Washington Rob Ert Tripp Ross Interi diced a Resolution asking presi Dent Truman to designate the week ending 38 a write to Europe i Lav Seho Ollna under h Bill Ling in the Globin of rights heresies my i entered the 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