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The book, in fact, became a working paper for the Committee of 300's plan to deindustrialize the world, starting with the United States.

Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau had proposed a plan to deindustrialize the German economy.

Japan is beginning to deindustrialize as the United States and Britain did a generation ago, with male workers losing jobs to smart machines and cheap foreign labor.

According to Stimson, the President said that he just wanted to help Britain get a share of the Ruhr and denied that he intended to fully deindustrialize Germany.

The concept was familiar in Allied propaganda and thinking during World War II in connection with ideas such as the Morgenthau plan, which proposed to deindustrialize Germany by completely dismantling its industrial capabilities, destroying its access to natural resources, and forcibly dispersing its technically skilled workforce.