Until Byrnes’ “Speech of Hope,” the Allies were committed to converting “…Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in character.” That was the express intention of the Morgenthau Plan, devised by US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. and co-signed by the United States and Britain two years earlier, in September 1944.
在拜恩斯发表《希望的演讲》之前，同盟国承诺将“德国改变为以农牧业为主的国家。”这是美国财政部长小摩根索（Henry Morgenthau Jr.）在两年前，也就是1944年9月所提出、并由美国和英国联合签署的摩根索计划（Morgenthau Plan）明确表达的意愿。