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I. G. Farben Industrie.  Thus is brought to an end one of the great industries on which the German war making ability has been founded.  The Potsdam Declaration provided that Germany would be stripped of her ability to make war.  General Eisenhower, angered by criticism at home, emphatically asserts that the terms of the Potsdam Declaration are being imposed and enforced.  Confiscation of the I.G. Far-ben properties supports, in great measure, the truth of his assertions." -- [[bold]]Editorial in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.[[/bold]]

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"As time goes on and attitudes change, the occupation of Germany and Japan is sure to become more and more of a headache.  The urge to bring the boys home, plus the normal crop of irritations with our allies will place greater strain on the determination to go on with this necessary job.  That is why it is impera-tive that American purposes should be clearly stated and that those who have the unenviable task of carrying them out should not be asked to abandon reason and justice merely to gratify certain critics at home who think our occupation generals don't swagger enough.  To disarm our late enemies and encourage the rebuilding of a peaceful economy is as a large enough order without insisting that every German and Japanese shall be a democrat from the instant he picks himself out of the rubble.  The speed of his conversion will be regulated in part by the degree to which democracy's representatives make plain that it is democracy they are working for and not totalitarianism under new management." [[bold]]Editorial in The Saturday Evening Post.[[/bold]
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