Potsdam aimed not only at Germany's economic heart, but at lopping off her business arteries abroad. With varying degrees of enthusiasm the Big Four want to make German foreign properties available for reparations, at the same time ensuring that such concealed interests as the far-flung I. G. Farbenindustrie cannot later serve a new aggression.
Last week in Berlin, Russell Nixon, acting U.S. member of the German External Property Commission, charged the State Department with trying to "hamstring" EPC's efforts to trace, freeze, and seize German-owned foreign property. State's denials were as sweeping and spirited as Nixon's charges.
1) Nixon: the State Department is...
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