upon by the four governments concerned through their representatives on the European Advisory Commission.
It is our inflexible purpose to destroy German militarism and Nazism and to ensure that Germany will never again be able to disturb the peace of the world. We are determined to disarm and disband all German armed forces; break up for all time the German General Staff that has repeatedly contrived the resurgence of German militarism; remove or destroy all German military equipment; eliminate or control all German industry that could be used for military production; bring all war criminals to just and swift punishment and exact reparation in kind for the destruction wrought by the Germans; wipe out the Nazi laws, organizations, institutions, remove all Nazi and militarist influences from public office and from the cultural and economic life of the German people; and take in harmony such other measures in Germany as may be necessary to the future peace and safety of the world. It is not our purpose to destroy the people of Germany, but only when Nazism and militarism have been extirpated will there be hope for a decent life for Germany, and a place for them in the comity of nations.
REPARATION BY GERMANY
We have considered the question of the damage caused by Germany to the Allied nations in this war and recognized it as just that Germany be obliged to make compensation for this damage in kind to the greatest extent possible. A commission for the compensation of damage will be established The commission will be instructed to consider the question of the extent and me hods for compensating damage caused by Germany to the Allied countries. The commission will work in Moscow.
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE
We are resolved upon the earlist possible eatablishment with our allies of a general international organization to maintain peace and security. We believe that this is essential, both to prevent- 6 -
