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    "ocrText": "CONF\n6\nOn March 13 the COSAR Committee directed a letter to all heads of di-\nvisions and offices reminding them of the responsibilities of the\nCommittee, informing them of the State Department working party under\nGeneral Eberlo, informing them of their responsibilities for provid-\ning information upon request, and tronsmitting a table showing sub-\n1\njects being studied and the liaison crranguments that had been made.\nGeneral Cutler arrived in Berlin on March 8, 1948, and during\nthe next two woeks he and General Eberle end their specialists\nfrom Washington held numerous conferences with the members of the\nCOSAR Committee, There are no systenatic records of these confer-\nences, but it is evident from the cables and memoranda that do exist\nthat the conferees were well informed and on common ground by this\ntime, and so rather rapid progress was possible. As might be ex-\npected, questions of personnel and-budget were uppermost, though\nall the matters which were of lator concern, from the constitution-\nal basis for occupation to the question of personal identification\ncards, came up for discussion. Apparently the actual drafting work\nfell largely upon the OMGUS Control Offige group which had already\nbuilt up a substantial set of proposals.\nThese negotictions wero teking place against a darkening back-\nground of internation2l relations which finally obscured them al-\ntogether. The pitch of Russian obstruction mounted higher and high-\ner in January and Fobruary of 1948, and finally in early Morch Gen-\neral Clay made c special report to the Chief of Staff in which he\nsaid that he sensed a change in the Soviet position which portended\nsome major Soviet action in Germany. This report attracted consid-\nerable attention and caused some fear in Washington. Then, on March\n20 the Russian representatives walked out of the Allied Control Coun-\ncil. Three days later General Clay was summoned to a. teletype con-\nference with Secretary Royall and General Omar Bradley. where. he was\ninformed that in viow of the current international situation there\n3\nwould be no change in the administrative arrangements for Germöny.\n¹Papers in Records of OMGUS, Control Office, \"Coordination\nPlan-State/Limy Reorganization Staff Assignments Chart) Committee\nCherter\". See also OMGUS, AG, \"322.01 hilitary Government and the\nState Department\", 1948.\n2See papers in sources cited in note 1 p. 5.\n3Lucius D. Clay, Decision in Germany, pp. 240,354-55. See also\ncable from CSCAD (Noce) to Clay, March 24. Records of OMGUS, AG, \"322.01\nMilitary Government and State Department\", 1948. S'ee also letter of\nAssistant Secretary of State, Charles Saltzman to U.S. Political Ad-\nviser, Robert D. Murphy, Harch 26, 1948 and reply of April 7, 1948.\nRecords of POLAD, Murphy file, \"Department S\" 1948."
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