Churchill’s War
FROM THE HENRY L STIMSON DIARY [The Morgenthau Plan evolved; plans for the liquidation of captured Nazi leaders] August 21, 1944: “At the Department my time was spent in organising my conferences as far as possible during the coming four or five days that I shall be in Washington. . . I talked with Harry Hopkins over the telephone. He wants me to talk with Morgenthau on the subject of Germany.
I also had a long talk with Secretary Hull in which I was able to give him a little of my views and arrange for an appointment tomorrow evening.” August 23, 1944 : “At twelve o’clock I went to the White House to see the President. It is the first time I have seen him since June. . . . He was in better physical form than I had expected and was very warm and cordial. . . .
I succeeded in getting through to him my views of the importance of having a decision on what we are going to do to Germany as a matter of primary importance in the peace settlement and pointed out as strongly as I could the difficulties that lay in that decision. . . I came