Electrical engineering: Retain Germany's peacetime industry! Urge presidents of five national engineering societies

ON the basis of our experience in engineering and industry, we consider that the proposal of the Secretary of the Treasury for the control of postwar Germany by the destruction or virtual dissolution of her industrial plant is economically unsound and contains the seeds of a new war. We believe that the part played by over 75,000 members of these societies in the design, engineering and production of the implements for our Armed Forces in quantities adequate for Victory, as well as our long experience as engineering industrialists in peacetime, entitle us to speak on this subject of paramount importance to the peace of the world.