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                      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
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