Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-01

eral staff Which has so often shat
tered the peace of the world
1t means that Germany will have
to make reparations in kind for the
damage which it has done to the
innocent victims of its aggression.
BY compelling Preparations in kind
in plant and machinery and roll
ing stock and raw materials-we
shall avoid the mistake made after
the last war of demanding repara-
tons in the form of money which
Germany could never pay.
We do not want the German peo-
pie to starve. or to become a burden
on the rest of the world.
Our objective in handling Ger
many is simple-it is to secure the
peace of the future world. Too
much experience has shown that
that objective is impossible if Ger
many is allowed to retain any ability
to wage aggressive war.
That objective will not harm the
German people On the contrary
it will protect them from repeti-
ton of the fate which the general
staff and Kaiserism imposed on
them before. and which Hitlerism
is now imposing upon them again
hundredfold. 1t will be removing
cancer from the German body,
which for generations has produced
only misery and pain for the whole
world.
Nazis Destroyed Villas.
During my stay at Yalta i saw
the kind of reckless, senseless fury
and destruction which comes out
of German militarism. Yalta had
no military significance of any kind
and no defenSes.
Before the last war 1t had been
resort for the Cars and for the
aristocracy of Russia. Afterward,
however, and until the attack upon
the Soviet Union by Hitler, the
palaces and villas of Yalta had been
used as rest and recreation CEN
ter by the Russian people.
The Nazi officers took them over
for their own use. and when the
Red Army forced the Nazis out of
the Crimea, these villas were looted
by the NaZis. and then nearly all
were destroyed And even the hum
blest of homes were not spared.
There was little left in Yalta but
ruin and desolation.
Sevastopol was also a scene of
utter destruction-with less than a
dozen buildings left intact in the
whole city.
1 had read about Warsaw and
Lidice and Rotterdam and Gov
entry-but I saw Sevastopol and
Yaltal And I know that there is
not enough room on earth for both
German militarism and Christian
decency.
Of equal Importance with the mil
itary arrangements at the Crimea
Conference were the agreements
reached with respect to general
international organization for last
ing world peace The foundations
were laid at Dumbarton Oaks.
There was one point, however, on
which agreement was not reached
at Dumbarton Oaks. 1t involved
the procedure of voting in the
Security Council.
American Proposal Adopted.
At the Crimea Conference the
Americans made a proposal on this
subject which, after full discussion,
was unanimously adopted by the
other two nations.
1t is not yet possible to announce
the terms of that agreement pub
licly, but it will be in very short
time
When the conclusions reached at
the Crimea Conference with respect
to voting in the Security Council
are made known I believe you will
find them a fair solution Of this
complicated and difficult problem.
They are founded in Justice and
will 60 far to assure international
cooperation in the maintenance of
peace.
A conference of all the United
Nations of the world will meet IN
San Francisco on April Is, 1945
There, we all hope and confidently
expect, to execute definite charter
of organization under which the
peace of the world will be preserved
and the forces of aggression perma-
nently outlawed.
This time we shall not make the
mistake of waiting until the end of
the war to set up the machinery of
peace. This time, as we fight to-
gether to get the war over quickly,
we work together to keep it from
happening again.
/ am we'll aware of the constitu-
tional fact-as are all the United
Nations-that this charter must be
approved by two-thirds of the Sem
ate of the United States-as will
some of the other arrangements
made at Yalta.
Senate Kept Advised.
The Senate of the United States,
through its appropriate representa-
tives, has been kept continuously
advised of the program of this
Government in the creation of the
international security organization
The Senate and the House of Rep
Iresentatives will both be represented
lat the San Francisco Conference.
The congressional delegates to the
lSan Francisco Conference will con-
lsist of an equal number of Repub-
lican and Democratic members. The
American delegation is--in every
sense of the word-bipartisan.
World peace is not q party ques-
tion-any more than is military vic.
tory.
When our republic was threat
lened. first by the NaN clutch fol