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-3- #10115, November 18, 3 p.m., from London
 
 
a peace of vengeance and no sympathy for the general destruction of all
German industries.
 
 
Two.  Economists and industrial technicians in the Iron and Steel
Control of the Ministry of Supply expressed the view that adequate
control of strategic materials needed in the metallurgical industries
would be an effective check on renewed German aggression.  They thought
that thorough control of chrome, tungaten, molybdenum, manganese and
nickel would probably suffice.  However, they stressed the difficulties
of such control and the necessity of thoroughgoing measures.  They
thought that a complete international control would be essential.  By
this they meant that an international body would have to make a
complete check on world production of the minerals in question and on
the manufacture of products which inorporate them together with trade
in both raw materials and manufactured products so that all raw
material produced anywhere in the world is accounted for.  German
stocks should not be allowed to rise above specified low working
levels.
 
 
They particularly stressed that neither control of imports at the
frontier by the ACC or other body nor visits
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