Shortage Due Promotion Of Exports Says Minister Berlin, Oct. 12.
Speaking on theZproblem of German raw materials before the German Economic Science Society, Reichs Finance Minister Count Schwerin von Krosigk declared that the prevailing shortage of raw materials was due to the special efforts now being made to promote export, further to the steps taken to promote the Four Year Plan and lastly to the necessity—while passing through a "bottleneck" period of shortage—of rationing the distribution of raw materials in accordance with the relative urgency of the purposes for which these materials are required.
As for the question of employment, the Finance Minister declared that Germany did not depend on re-armament to keep her economic life in full swing. The great aim of National Socialism, ie. to raise the standard of living of the German people, provided such a multiplicity of tasks, most of which had to be postponed for the moment, that Germany has no need to fear any recurrence of unemployment.—Trans-Ocean.
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