Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virginia's famed Mrs. Chipsian Lucy Madeira Wing, 83, resigned after 51 years as headmistress of suburban Washington's genteel Madeira School. Schoolmarm Madeira, a doughty New Dealer, kept her girls, including daughters of such notable capital names as Morgenthau, Hopkins and Saltonstall, in green jumper uniforms, out of lipstick, with chaperoned escorts, and under a stiff liberal-arts regimen. Her favorite mottoes, watchwords to two generations of time-tried Madeira maidens: "Function in disaster!" and "Finish in style...
...fuller life might be provided." Another paper dealing with the postwar reduction of Germany is a memorandum written by the late fellow traveler Harry Dexter White, then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and later exposed as a tool of the Communists. It told how Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. came back to Washington in the late summer of 1944, after the second Quebec Conference. At Quebec, Morgenthau and White had got the initials of Roosevelt and Churchill on the Morgenthau plan, designed to reduce Germany to a "pastoral" state. White noted that Prime Min ister Churchill first opposed the plan...
Henry had developed into something of an egghead while at school, and his chief interests were the German and Communist problems. At war's end he was approached by friends who could not find a publisher for a book criticizing Henry Morgenthau's plan to reduce Germany to a pastoral state. Henry forgot about textiles and banks. Eight years ago he formed his publishing firm. Millionaire Regnery likes to say that it cost him $100,000 to learn the publishing business. but today the company is in the black...
...What civilized person could ever imagine those nice Americans devising such a fiendish scheme as the Morgenthau plan . . ." Faces dimmed. ". . . to reduce Germany to an agrarian country? Such childish nonsensel! Ach ja, Hitler did lose the war for us, but did we not suffer enough? I am no Nazi . . ." Nodding heads in the group indicated that no one was, or indeed ever had been, a Nazi. ". . . but trying to force your Democracy on us like an insect spray, ja it was too silly...
...State Department advanced a plan consistent with Eden's policy. Against the State Department view stood Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau and his right-hand man, Harry Dexter White, later to be revealed as an accomplice of a Communist spy ring. They wanted Germany to be economically gutted and turned into a country "primarily agricultural and pastoral." Harassed between Morgenthau and Secretary Hull, Roosevelt ended up with a plague-on-all-plans attitude...