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

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

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

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.