The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.
Germany and South Korea were able to lower unemployment through success in export industries.
This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.
Very early, it became clear to me that East Germany could not function.
There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.
German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
The German physicists knew at least so much about the manufacture and construction of atomic bombs that it was clear to them that the manufacture of bombs in Germany could not succeed during the war. For this reason, they were spared the moral decision whether they should make an atomic bomb, and they had only worked on the uranium engine.
The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.
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