Speech of Hope
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or "Restatement of Policy on Germany"; delivered in Stuttgart on Sept 6, 1947 by James F. Byrnes, the US Secretary of State; set the tone of future US policy as it repudiated the Morgenthau Plan economic policies and with its message of a change to a policy of economic reconstruction gave the Germans hope for the future
his Speech of Hope--a significant restatement of America's policy on Germany. Until then the Allies had been united in their commitment to convert 'Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in character'.
incidentally, isn't it inherently fucked up that the Allies thought they had the right to do that
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