Germany's Four-Year Plan The Four Year Plan announced by Herr
Hitler at • Nuremberg is to make Germany completely independent of all those foreign imports for which substitutes can be found by German invention, technique and industry. The Plan is necessary because there is no prospect of Germany's increasing her exports enough to buy such imports from abroad. General Goring has now been appointed to control the carrying out of the Plan : he is the natural man for the job after his appointment in April to control Germany's supplies of foreign exchange and raw materials. The Plan will affect every sphere of Getman life, her economic system, her military system, the Press and the party. In recognition of its importance .General Goring has been given power to issue decrees • and exercise control. over all authorities in the Reich • and in the Party. There arc hints that he will take over from Herr Hith r his functions as Chancellor, as opposed to Fuhrer. The pluralist General will need all these powers if he is to succeed in his most important task— that of mediating between the conservative Dr. Schacht and the Radical Nazis, who wish to finance the Plan by an expansion of credit and to use it as a means of socialising German economic life and suppressing private capitalists.
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