Show 0 s germans hope to rebuild g y country out of wreckage expect quality of products to restore rep JS of lost beauty of cities se seek r raw materials for industry by news analyst and commentator service 1016 eye street N 14 W washington D 0 GERMANY ono one 4 german german who othe otherwise gets along very well with the american mccu pation officials end and Is thoroughly in sympathy with what Is going on in the cinberg Nu court house will nevertheless be one of the happiest men in germany when the trials are bacr over lie he to is a little black ha ired bespectacled man named hans hang kiegler of tho the city the best translation tor for his title Is plain mayor but bu t because all german cities have at least one i deputy mayor some of the amerlean american writers who have seen service in london translate melster mel as lord mayor herr ziegler ailys frankly brankl that his work will be easier when I 1 the hugo huge organization required to support the international military Ari tribunal bunal has folded its tents and departed when he told me this I 1 was wa s rather surprised since at first blush it might seem that tho the city would benefit from all this american activity however when one considers that what the americans here buy with the germans own i money wo we print it and they have to redeem it the profits can call hardly seem desirable the central ger man governa government ent when there Is one ona will eventually redeem the paper 1 marks but au all germans will have to contribute in tho the form of taxes jn in although no 09 1 I said the city budget had been out cut BO 50 per cent the taxes have already been increased 33 V per cent military tribunal imposes burden the chief burden the military liri bunal imposes on the town and the one which presses down hard on the mayor derives from the fact that it takes a lot of tons volts and nd manpower to keep the wheels wheel of justice moving cotal coal Is gs as it Is ger banys chief problem what the russians Itus got get out in their zone lone tho the chief coal arca aien in ger gee ninny many the french have taken inken in tile theirs irs tra transportation has broken down without fuel to heat their homes or to cook with gers have bought up every sort of electrical heater beater and cooker and this plus the larga amount of power used by the americans has put a term ter rafic drain d aln not only on tho the power plants plan but the cables it takes coal to make mahe electricity here where there are no tumbling cataracts As I 1 write the snow la Is tailing falling in great christman Chilst man card flakes ad even th the ruined houses are assuming a touch touch of beauty that beauty aw idof of lit it oa comfor tto people living in in eeli baisor N or without roofs chaks lit gs houses were destroyed the mayor told me a third partly demolished demoll shed the the rest cin bo io comado mado livable but alas the tribunal took over one third of tha 66 labor available for building tind repair and a large stock I 1 of ryail reals f ta A two hour lour walk through the city revealed no shoos chops open except excepts a few tod and mont meat sores in salfa of tips tills almo almost total eclipse of visible industrial existence I 1 was as surprised that the mayor placed first on his alsi list of objectives a restoration of gs long established reputation tor expert craftsmanship for gooda of hagh high quality toy of course but also precision instruments light machinery and pottery we cannot restore gs beauty its historical buildings which brought so many tourists 11 here horek said mayor ziegler Sl egler but wo we can cah win back our bur reputation us as hard f workers and fine workers tho the city lias has a long established record lor for industriousness and expert handl craft as producers of high quality goods that reputation groesback goes back to the middle ages of course we will haye hay to be vory patient we must first rehabilitate our city then we must wilt wait for good raw materials which we must have to produce high quality products and of course nil all this must wait until germany Is oncel once more permitted to trade in world markets but I 1 interjected at this point chat hat about the food situation that in the mayors province he fie took the view which later proved sound enough that america would not let the germans german starve if that was our intention after oil all it solved all problems and there was no need to discuss the other questions the mayor by no means mcana took for granted that america was an endless source of supplies that we would forever provide the food which germany herself never had and never nover could produce all he expected A was to be tided over until germany could pay her own way ond end buy the food tor for her people and feed for her cattle that brought this keen eyed little man right back to his original theme our small industries must got get back on their feet so that we can sell our goods in the world markot market and obtain exchange for food imports remember he said the nus russians have taken over ger banys broad bread basket A great segment of the country has been cut away and a million and a quarter german food producers who aro arc also food consumers have moved back within thenon the nonfood non food producing area of germany the ruhr and saor areas never could possibly teed iced themselves now more people are crowded crowfis into them as well BS as into this area where most of the ha land Is already under cultivation those newcomers cannot raise food but they can work in our fan and produce products who can buy the food from the rest resi of the world to do that we must be ba allowed to get the raw mate and bo permitted to trade in e world markets otherwise there will be starvation riots and chaos which will spread all 0 over cr europe european economy out of kilter later on I 1 learned more moie about that spreading in berlin I 1 sat iti ill the office of 0 american food and agriculture administration through that homco omco that morning had pa passed ased a czech cech atel a belgian and a hollander the czech come came in to beg permits to bring sugar into germany which has none the czecha czechs best beet fields hove have not been de stroy troyed cd they cant ship the bt beet bugor abroad but they could easily push it across the czech german border where tile the germans are starving for it and the germans have great piles of unused salt the hollander tile the germans love my fish they are starving you are importing food for them my fish Is rotting and there are still enough parts for agricultural machinery in germany and plenty can bo be turned out in small ta factories which we wa must have if we are to continue our farming the belgian had the tha same story from time immemorial belgian cheap beef haa gone to luebec and other west german cities to go into german sa sau imago sago the belgians have plenty of scrawny cattle which concoct tol lato into german sausage would bo be received only too gladly by the germans what shall I 1 do with this cat tle tie they are no good for anything else and wo we could get plenty of f manufactured products in germany to pay tor for them it if you would let only a few shops start manufacturing fac turing the things we need in the russian zone a number numbs N f factories are arci working supplying the ahe russians of course buts but likewise yielding return enough to keep tho the germans alive to make moro more things the ahe russians peed I 1 witnessed striking evidence tit of this will to survive e on the tha part of 0 business men for the most part it represented the tha retailer et but alt it la Is typical ol of the town I 1 wa walked c through the he nightmare of tho the altstadt Alti the old town own which Is within the ancient city wall and was the famous sightseeing sight seeing center as well as aa the location of the main police station and city hall where tho the SS troops held out to the last man the destruction is too horrible to dwell it is an exaggerated coventry but all niong along the main streets now cleared of rubble were brandner brand new well w painted signs bearing the namo dilme of the shop owners who had once done business there with visitors from all the world and plain to see was the notice of a new address it gave one a strange feeling to see bright bits of neat board stuck in a dump heap a neat dump heap it made you think of the tha restless hand in the old tole tale projecting from the grave |