Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pinned Medals of Merit (Civilian equivalent of the D.S.M.) on ex-Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. and Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies...
According to O'Donnell, the soldier Patton slapped in Sicily was Jewish. Somehow, not very clearly explained, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Sidney Hillman and White House Aide David K. Niles subsequently got the General's scalp...
What Not to Do. Wrote Morgenthau: "Germany . . . has been compared to a mental patient ... a whole zoo of animals ranging from snakes to apes . . . a young girl led astray." He preferred to write without hatred, attacked many a popular idea of what to do with Germany...
Peace, It's Wonderful. Morgenthau's major premise: Germans must live primarily on the land, give up all their heavy industries ("without them, no matter how savage her aggressive aims may be, she cannot make war"). The Potsdam plan for Germany followed the general lines of this familiar "goat pasture" doctrine, but did not go as far as Morgenthau would like...
...Author Morgenthau never quite got to grips with the fundamental question: how to make the plan work. Looking around for ways & means of enforcement, Morgenthau tangled with rhetoric, left his great hope enmeshed in tautology. Said he in effect: 1) to have peace, the world must de-industrialize Germany; 2) to keep Germany de-industrialized, the world must have a strong will for peace...