The political leaders of the Three Great Powers rejected. at San Francisco. the thesis that great powers must be subject to any law governing their sovereign actions. and in the name of law. established lawlessness for the powerful and servitude for the weak. The political leaders of the Three Great Powers threw into the wastepaper basket at Potsdam every shred of historical and ethnographical principle and human rights. By extending the frontiers of Poland under a thoroughly unrepresentative government to the Oder and the Neisse. and agreeing to the expropriation and deportation of indigenous populations. they compounded the crimes of Hitler himselfthe very crimes of which the Nazi leaders stand accused before the worldand condemned millions of absolutely helpless men. women. and children to terror. migration. and starvation. By agreeing to divide vast parts of Europe into zones within each of which four armies would have. in effect. unrestricted license to do as they pleased. they made Inevitable the division of Europe into two blocs. and th breakdown" of the London Conference. By agreeing in the name of "reparations" and "Industrial disarmament" to a fourway loot in countries already devastated beyond imagination. they initiated in the name of peace a new scorchedearth policy. set adrift the last remnants of order. betrayed the hopes and prayers of all Christendom. and sowed the seeds of anarchy. nihilism. and despair.
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