Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hastily the President appointed a Cabinet committee to consider the problem. The members: Secretaries Stimson, Hull and Morgenthau. The Cabinet committee met three times in three days, just before the President was forced to leave for Quebec. Messrs. Hull and Stimson strongly opposed the Morgenthau program to strip Germany. Both agreed that such a super-Versailles would only justify a future German generation in once more uniting to plan revenge. They wanted rigid controls, for many years to come, but they wanted Germany, for centuries the economic center of Middle Europe, put back on its economic feet. They only wanted...
...Henry Morgenthau, talked down in this session, went ahead on his own. Suddenly Messrs. Hull and Stimson learned that Morgenthau was in Quebec. Neither Mr. Hull nor Mr. Stimson enjoy a basic Morgenthau advantage-(for years Henry Morgenthau has always had Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Morgenthau Plan was received by the British had not been reported early this week. But London dispatches said that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden or even Prime Minister Winston Churchill may speak soon upon the controversial subject in Parliament. Some Washington sources insisted that Foreign Secretary Eden received the Morgenthau Plan with warm approval. Others insisted that this was mere British politeness; these took the view that Mr. Eden was privately horrified at the Morgenthau Plan...
There was some reason to believe that the President's personal preference for the Morgenthau Plan would fade under the steady pressure of the two Cabinet officers who will actually have the most responsibility in the occupation of Germany. Furthermore, it might cost votes from those citizens who would prefer a more careful-and less vindictive-program for the re-education of Germany. And finally, it was of the highest political urgency that the latest Cabinet split be mended before Candidate Dewey hammered again at the "old, tired, quarrelsome" men of Washington...
...hours later, the Goebbels propaganda machine began grinding. Shouted the German radio: "The occupation of the Reich by Americans and British would be as horrible as by the Bolsheviks. Morgenthau is outdoing Clemenceau. Clemenceau said there were 23,000,000 Germans too many-Morgenthau wants to see 43,000,000 Germans exterminated...