Forum Hears Argument on Reich Trade

Disagreement between an international trade official and the former financial adviser to Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lucius Clay developed in the initial Law School forum of the year at Rindge Tech on "what should our policy regarding economic reconstruction of Europe."

Viewing as "miraculous" the amount of revival brought about by the United States in Continental industry, Thomas C. Blaisdell of the U. S. Department of Commerce asked the rebuilding of German resources.

Proof that Western Europe does not want a revitalized Germany was cited by Bernard Bernstein, ex-Mediterranean Theater trouble-shooter. France, he observed, would rather see the iron ore deposits of Lorraine expanded with American loans than the coal areas of Rlieno-Westphalia.

Bernstein agreed with former Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles that "France is the key to economic Europe."

Both agreed that it was in the interest of U. S. policy to promote a strong western bloc as the only answer to Russian activities in the Soviet sector of the German zone.