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.

The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

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