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worries General Eisenhower. An it is of supreme importance in world relations. For the world has recently been greatly discouraged by the impasse at the London Conference, where the Big Shot diplomats did not seem to have their lessons prepared. But that they must and can learn the lesson of how to work together is proved conclusively by the ability of the lesser fry in Berlin." The Toledo Blade.
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"I believe that we must base our policy not on the imaginary fear of Communist expansion westward, but upon the need of strengthening European democracy against the real peril of anarchy." Walter Lippman.
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"General Truscott, in taking over General Patton's job as Third Army Commander, has given serious and early attention to the problem of our troops attitude towards the Germans in the American Zone of Occupation. He plans a program of instruction designed to counteract the over-friendliness which seems to mark the soldiers' present relations with the former enemy. - It would seem that, while General Truscott's announced program is an excellent idea, the instruction he suggests better start earlier than the time of the soldier's arrival in Germany." Editorial in the Peoria Star.
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"Setting an example for all Europe and for war-ravaged nations everywhere, the French people, men and women alike, went to the polls yesterday in their first national election since their liberation from the Nazi yoke to decide three issues that are of fundamental importance to France, to Europe and to the world. The fact that the French people chose to decide these issues by ballots, not by bullets, is a supreme tribute to the political genius of the French
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and the maturity of their character. The settlement of France's domestic differences by means of the vote holds out the promise that, whatever French foreign policy is in the future, it will likewise be governed by the decision of that greater majority of mankind of which the French themselves are such a leading part." The New York Times.
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"President Truman's message advocating universal military training may well stand in the future as one of the fundamental documents in American history... The critical question is whether the people of the United States and their Congress are willing to face the real demands of the modern world, whether they are willing to invest their time and energies in the aims of peace and prosperity which they profess, or whether they are again (as before) so tired of the war just past that they will give nothing to future peace, relapsing rather into all the old, easy comfortable ways which will spell another war in another generation. That is the question which the President's message poses." Editorial in New York Tribune.
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"Of first water should be the lessons learned in world War I and II. The most important of those lessons learned is that while we saved Germans from the very starvation they meted out to others, saved them in order to save ourselves, we must be prepared to spend some time and money in the occupation of Germany in order that we don't have to again give lives and blood to conquer the German people." Cedric Foster in CBS broadcast.
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One of the first steps taken, after the establishment of American control authority in Germany had been established, was the seizure of the physical properties and all the records of the
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