TRADE & INDUSTRIAL Business DEVELOPMENTS 22 12/27/54 NEW YORK WORLD. Top-Designers What Is Conservatism? 25 Bill Dr. Kirk Gives Some Unusual Answers Of Nazi Planes Which Will Startle Many Conservatives In Pro By LAWRENCE FERTIG. Busy at Trade Conservatism has been out of tends to corrupt; absolute fashion in this country for over power corrupts absolutely." Dr. Held a quarter of a century, but once Kirk wants to breathe a new again its influ- spirit into Conservative doc- Messerschmitts Leads ence is grow- trine. He says, "The enlight- NPA Se ing. What are ened Conservative does not be- Trio in Spanish Posts the guiding lieve that the end aim of life is For Full. principles of competition; or success; or By the United Press. Conservatism? power; or possession. He be- By the United Press MADRID, Dec. 27.-Three of Prof. Russell lieves, instead, that the object WASHINGT Germany's top aircraft design- Kirk makes an of life is Love." The National ers under Hitler have "kept important con Wise Observations. has called for heir hand in" since 1949 by tribution to this production ne discussion in However, although Dr. Kirk working closely with aeronauti- "our economy cal ctories in Spain, it was dis- Lawrence Fertig, his new book makes many wise observations, in accordance "A Program for Conservatives." mary people who think of them- closed today. of the labor f selves as Conservatives will be- Spanish unernment and air- This is a scholarly and stimulat- in productivity craft industry officials con- mg essay that should be widely come more and more puzzled as they read this interesting book. The non-pro firmed that Willy Messer- read by all shades of political schmitt, Ernst Heinkel and and economic opinion. In discussing capitalism and said U.S. prod communism Dr. Kirk professes crease by at Claude Dornier Jr., have been Dr. Kirk says, "If you want his "reluctance to endorse either 000 next year busy helping Spain develop its men to seek, reasonably and pru- of these sets of dogmas." ing force fully own plane production. dently, to reconcile the best in production of Associates believe all three the wisdom of our ancestors This cavalier treatment of pri- ices, the so-calle men will be quick to re-enter with the change which is essen- vate capitalism as a basis of product," now the field in Germany after the tial to a vigorous civic social Conservative philosophy is start- billions. ratification of the Paris agree- existence, then you will have to ling, to say the least. But Dr. The associa ments for rearmament of West turn to Conservative principles." Kirk goes further. He does not even though Germany. Conservatives do not try to tear like the accent on individualism sion did not Can Build Fighters. up the institutions of mankind in Conservative philosophy and business depr every time a bright new mind That pact prohibits German he talks of it as a "dreary secu- omy failed to comes up with a new blue-print manufacture of guided missiles lar dogma." "The actual for society. and long-range bombers but What relationship has Dr. activities is at "The Conservative believes puts no ban on jet fighters or Kirk's philosophy to commonly to 20 billions that the individual is foolish, tactical bombers. accepted principles of Conserva- reasonably Messerschmitt's single-engine although the species is wise," tism, many will ask, if he the group said fighter was the best known of observes the author. He points doesn't stand for individualism, The group all Nazi planes in the early days to the dangers of encroachment private capitalism and the free steps for stir of the war but proved not quite by the central government on market? The fact is that Dr. ing power: F a match for the famed British the state and by the state on Kirk is rather suspicious of the tions, improv Spitfire. local government. free market and the laws of construction The Heinkel two-engine bomb- He obviously takes, as a guid- economics. He wants to elimi- and hospitals er was the main German strik- ing rule, the old liberal prin- nate Adam Smith from the Con- aid owners o. ing weapon in the Battle of ciple of Lord Acton (now a It also Conservative precept) "Power Continued on Page 25. Britain. wage rates Dornier Jr., who is only 38, prices with worked with his father in their huge factories. The Dorniers Steel Lauded Aircraft Output tivity." are best known for the great Moves to flying boats they developed just before World War II. The senior Dornier now lives in Zurich, For Holding Prices Decline Forecast