When Americans got involved in this inhumane war, we did it with a clear idea that it was going to be hard for every American family to support a war of such dimension and that our involvement had to be to help the world in the long rung. We knew that the violence was not the way and it is not the way to work out our problems. However, we didn't have any option and we sent our troops with the hope that at the end we had to do the right thing as Americans always did, our goal was to create a fair world in which the rights of every human being was going to be respected.
At the end of this terrible war, we have seen many cities, towns and families shattered and now it is time for the reconstruction. We have to create new conditions for everybody, we have to create a new international community and our new values have to to be so clear that whatever or whoever condition that threatens our future peace has to be eliminated. One of the threaten for our future peace is the penality put on the German people. When a country is demanded to pay such a huge compensation, the most probable thing that might happen is that the debt will become not payable, the resentment of the German people will grow and we will have a new war in a shorter period of time.
It interpreted racial segregation as acceptable under the equal protection clause at a time when racism was still socially acceptable. ... It challenged southern ideas of white supremacy at a time when northern states were extremely supportive of equal rights for all races.
