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...Earlier, in a memorable speech at Stuttgart, State Secretary Byrnes stated one hard fact-that...
Recessional. Two weeks later Byrnes made his great Stuttgart speech in which he recognized, as the Potsdam Pact had not, that a healthy Germany was necessary for a reconstructed Europe. To insure that a strong Germany would not again dominate the Continent, Byrnes made a solemn promise...
...three that were acquitted all face trial in a few weeks by German Spruchkammern (lower courts). Franz von Papen and Hans Fritsche are in Nürnberg. Ailing Hjalmar Schacht is in a Stuttgart hospital, to which he was taken last fortnight, handcuffed, and screaming for an immediate trial. Life imprisonment was apparently agreeing with convicted Rudolf Hess. From Nürnberg last week, came news that his shattered nerves were returning to normal, his stomach aches disappearing...
Almost everywhere, from Germany to China, Russia and its friends had lost the ball. Secretary Byrnes's great September speech at Stuttgart had clearly announced U.S. determination not to abandon Europe and to work out a constructive solution for Germany. Communist defeat in the Berlin elections was followed last week by a new Russian policy which clearly placed the urgent needs of Russia's people above thwarted external ambitions. That the Russian effort to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Britain had also failed was attested by the repudiation of American neo-isolationists of the Wallace school...
...particular vividness because I was in Berlin when it was made. I saw the uses which Soviet propaganda made of it and the disappointment and dismay it spread among democratic forces in Europe and in Germany. They had just been tremendously heartened by Secretary Byrnes's address in Stuttgart. . . . Europe's democratic forces are behind Byrnes and not Wallace. The confusion in American liberalism, of which the Wallace speech is the symbol, must be regarded as catastrophic in the Ight of the European realities...