Telegram from Walter Bedell Smith to the Department of State

DECLASS!FIED E, O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) INCOMING TELEGRAM Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973 By NLT- HC , NARS Date 2-14-75 DEPARTMENT OF STATE-DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS TELEGRAPH BRANCH A D C ORRECTED COPY 59 Action: s/s Control 9699 Info : LOG DO/R Reo'd March 31, 1947 4:35 p.m. FROM: Moscow TO: Secretary of State NO: 1118, Merch 31, 10 p.m. "NATIONAL URGENT DELSEC 1375 SERVICE TO ACHESON PERSONAL EYES ONLY FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM MARSHALL. Please deliver immediately the following to the President: Dear Mr. President: We ure now locked in the final discussions regarding economic and political unity and regarding political organization of Germany. The vitel points are the level of industry, with related demands for repara- tions from current production (having in mind that to raise the level certain plants now allocated to Russia must be retained in Germany: othervise no increase in the level of industry is possible), coal for France which also directly affects the problem of raising the level; and the demands for reparation from current production. Leter, on the agenda are: the Four-Pover Pact; the Ruhr problem; and the location of boundaries, which, on the Eestern Front, have an important bearing on the density of population and the supply of food from a rich agricultural distriot. These matters are Teleted to the problem of unity but cannot yet be dis- oussed in detail. I will now quote instructions which I am about to give the American Delegation unless I hear from you to the contrary. INFORMATION COPY