6. The long range plans dealing with what should be done
over a period of years to control Germany's will, power and capacity
to make war have been worked on for a long time in the American and
in the Allied governments but no final decisions can obviously be
made on all phases of this problem until the relevant facts are known 
about what the conditions are in Germany after it is completely defeated.
 
     7. If the Germans senselessly continue their resistance, in view 
of the certainty of victory, they will invite increased destruction of 
their industries and their economic system by Allied bombers and Allied 
land forces. A good part of Germany's industrial and 
economic system has already been destroyed or damaged by the Allied air 
forces. The destruction from bombing raids continues to mount. Now with 
land fighting on German soil, the Germans, as illustrated at Aachen, 
are inviting further and more devastating destruction by United Nations 
artillery and other land force action. If, in addition to this destruction 
which the Germans are bringing on themselves, they wantonly follow a 
scorched earth policy, the destruction of the German industrial and 
economic system will be even greater and more complete.
 
     When we and our Allies know with definiteness how much the 
Germans have destroyed their own industrial and economic system, we
will know better what to do about it.