U.S. investors are attracted to The Netherlands and Belgium, since they are politically more stable than France, industrially more productive than Italy, militarily more secure than W. Germany.

In the Gothic cathedral town of Malines, Belgium, Du Pont was preparing last week to build its first plant on the European Continent. Nearby, Procter & Gamble was operating a recently completed $2,000,000 plant. A few miles down the road, Union Carbide was moving into a polyethylene plant, and Ford…