Speech #810155070

Germany Is the workshop of western Europe. There can be no stable European economy on a capitalist basis unless western Germany industrial production is restored to a level above that of her prewar output. The loss of Germanys territories east of the OderNelsse and the eastern zone occupied by the Soviet Union has deprived western Germany of her principal domestic source of food supply and the increase in the population Into western Germany by reason of the influx of over 10.000.000 refugees from these eastern areas. has created a situation that competent authorities recognize as being the powder keg that may spread chaos and communism over all of western Europe. Western Germany. by tilling her soil to the utmost. cannot feed half of the present 48.000.000 persons now living within her borders. Starvation has presently been staved off by reason of the fact that the American taxpayer is pouring over a billion dollars a year Into western Germany to feed the population and restore industrial production to enable exports to be made to offset imports.