In Paris, the lights which now blaze so brightly may soon be dimmed. In the huge textile mills of Lyons, the spindles are idle. In Belgium the great steel mills in Liege, Charleroi and La Louviere are shut. In many a European village there is ample food, but no way to get it to the hungry cities.
These were outward signs last week, two months after V-E day, that the econ omy of western Europe was still paralyzed.
Like a watch without a mainspring, it lacked the all-important power needed to start it up again : the power locked up in...
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