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these controls remains a subject of discussion and has
not been greatly clarified by the so-called "Massigli 
Plan".  Foreign Minister Bidault believes that industrial 
controls might be modeled after those used by the Germans 
in France and believes that German industries and univer-
sity laboratories should remain indefinitely under-Allied 
supervision. The Communists have been fulminating against 
the trusts, but are apparently inclined to leave German 
industry in German hands. The French Communist line at  
present appears to harmonize with that followed by the 
Soviet-sponsoed "Free Germany Committee", which holds 
out the hope that the Germans may continue to run their 
own affairs once they have repudiated the Hitler regime.
 
       While both Right and Left in-France demand direct 
security measures in Germany, the Socialists are the most 
inclined to persist in their old faith that co1lective se-
curity, organized on both a European and a world scale, 
will in the 1ong run be of equal importance in curbing 
German agression. They are particularly attracted to 
the idea of a European federation.
 
        With regard to the Rhineland and the Ruhr, virtually 
every Frenchsman who has expressed an opinion favors special 
measures of some sort in that area. These views range 
from outright annexation of all or part of the area to 
measures of international economic control which single
out this region from the rest of Germany. Recently, there 
has been increasing evidence of a desire to sever the 
Rhineland from main German state.
 
        General de Gaulle's statement, on the Rhineland have 
been growing increasingly frank. Latest information in-
dicates that he prefers, outright French annexation rather 
than French control of an autonomous state. He is believed 
to favor the establishment of an international control for
the Ruhr.                                      
 
     Those who favor international rather than French con-
trol of the Rhineland believe that such a policy would 
commit other nations to the maintenance of French security.  
They are therefore against annexation by France, either 
outright or disgiused.