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The problem for the victors, consequently, is (1) to determine 
what kind of teaching in Germany would be most conducive to our 
long-range of world security, and (2) to consider what means 
could be employed to foster that teaching.
 
          The Department is well aware of the difficulties but no 
constructive alternative, as an ultimate objective, to a German
school system promoting the psychological disarmament of the 
German people and reflections a democratic outlook in which a 
humanitarian and international outlook will supersede the current 
ultranationalism.
 
          This program is recommended as a contribution toward that 
end. The Department foresees, however, that no fundtamental 
in the German mentality can be effected by the school 
alone. The hope for a transformation of educational values will 
depend less on what is done in the school room than on the whole 
experience of the German people in the occupation and post-war 
periods.                     
 
            c. Religious Activity. - The Department of State recommends 
that the Nazi legislation and organizations for maintaining the Party's 
tyranny over German religion should be terminated and 
that full religious freedom, including the rights of teaching,  
publishing and conducting social security, should be established as 
quickly as security needs will permit.
                
IX.        LONG-RANGE OBJECTIVES AND MEASURES
 
          The Department of State recommends that the measures applied
during the period of military government should from the beginning
be worked out and applied in the light of long-range objectives
with respect to Germany and Germany's ultimate place in the 
projected world order
     
     The enduring interest of the United States is peace, and so
far as Germany is concerned the basic objective of this Government
must be to see to it that that country does not disturb the peace.
 
     Security against a renewal of German aggression must be
guaranteed during the foreseeable future by a rigorously enforced
prohibition of a German military establishment and by a vigilant
control of German war potential.
 
 
      An indefinitely continued coercion of so many millions of 
technically resourceful people, however, would be at best an 
expensive undertaking. There is, moreover, no certainty that the 
victor powers will be willing and able indefinitely to apply 
coercion. In the long run, therefore, the best guaranty of 
security, and the least expensive, would be the assimilation of 
the German people into the world society of peace-loving nations.
 
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