Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.