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

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.

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

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.

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

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