Restatement of Policy on Germany
1946 speech by U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Restatement of Policy on Germany", or the "Speech of Hope", is a speech given by James F. Byrnes, the US Secretary of State, in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946.
The speech set the tone of future US policy, as it repudiated the economic policies of the Morgenthau Plan, and its message of a change to a policy of economic reconstruction gave the Germans hope for the future.
Due to controversial comment about Polish-German post-war border, favoring Germany, the speech improved the German-American relationship while simoultanesly worsening Polish-American one.