8. One central thing is clear. Our plans do not envisage the destruction or enslavement of the German people; but they do envisage effective control to insure that the Germans will not have the will, power and capaeity to make war again. 9. Based on this central principle the available facts and the alternative possibilities depending upon the length of the war against Germany and what the Germans do to destroy their industrial economic system, work on the long range plans both in the United States Government and the Allied Governments is moving along as speedily as possible. |