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I entered into the RECORD a documentary account of the universal protest of the American people against the savage policies which this administration was following toward the German people in a speech entitled "Americas ChoicePeace or the Morgenthau Plan." That record included protests from leading churchmen. businessmen. and labor leaders and organizations clear across this country. That record of hate and vengeance against which I protested. included the refusal by this administration to make any attempt to distinguish between the guilty and innocent. the imposition of mass starvation on 20.000.000 Germans under the American flag. the singling out of Germany for special vindictive treatment. the refusal of UNRRA aid to German children while both Austria and Italy were granted UNRRA supplies. the refusal on the part of this administration to permit the American Red Cross to succor the helpless and the dying. if they were of German extraction. the rerefusal to permit even the Christian churches to minister relief in the name of Christ. for many long months following the end of the war. and general betrayal of American an6 Christian principles which resulted in such revolting consequences that representatives of our leading newspapers did not even dare to report the truth. even when they were granted permission to see for themselves. Even to this moment. this particularized hatred of the German people has been incorporated Into the constitution of the International Refugee Organization. which denies any aid to any Germans of ethnic origin although no such restriction applies to any other nationality or race or people. Mr. President. the Morgenthau plan. which had been Incorporated into the Potsdam declaration. had produced such chaos in Germany even during the first 6 months following the war that President Truman asked Byron Price. on August 30. 1945. to investigate conditions in Germany.