POST-WAR GERMANY 1. Dismemberment No enforced partition of Germany into two or three autonomous states. Acquiescence with such arrangement as may be agreed upon by the European neighbors of Germany regarding East Prussia, Silesia, the Ruhr, the Sear and the Rhineland. Encouragement of plebiscites (in Bavaria, for example) whereby the people may themselves decide for or against inclusion with Prussia in a German state. 2. REPARATIONS No attempt to exact payment of reparations in money, credits or manufactured goods. Removal from Germany of such items as railroad equipment, machinery, livestock and, works of art to be not a punitive operation but for the purpose of restoring or replacing stolen property to the people who have been plundered. 3. Control of expression During the period of control of Germany by Allied Military Government the country will be in effect under martial law, which means control of all activities. As the strict control by martial law is relaxed, and finally ends, control of all forms of expression -- newspapers, magazines, books, radio, school curricula and texts--will perforce be restored to the Germans, under the government which will have been set up under AMG control. 4. Punishment of War Criminals There is no recognized international civil code under which "war criminals" can be indicted, tried and convicted by |