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    "ocrText": "DECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, See. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973\nBy NLT- HC , NARS Date 7.14.75\n-2-, #1546, April 25, 1 a.m., from Mosoow.\non May 12 to discuss all disagreed questions of the\nAustrian treaty. A special committee of experts vill\nbe formed under the commission to study the facts in-\nvolved in the question of German assets in Austria and\nAustrien property in Allied and associated states. The\ncommission will seek agreement on all differences and\nreport without delay to the Council of Forsign Ministers.\nMarshall brought up the United States proposal on the\nreduction of occupation forces to Germany which directs\nthe Control Council for Germany to report to the Foreign\nMinisters on the size of the security forces which it is\nnecessary for the occupying powers to keep in Germany.\nMolotov proposed that the Council limit the occupation\nforces in Germany to 200,000 men for the USSR, 200,000\nfor the United States and United Kingdom, since their\nzones are combined, and 50,000 for France. Bevin said\nhe would agree to a limit of 145,000 men for the United\nKingdom zone but that the USSR, United Kingdom, and\nUnited States zones should have en equal number. Bidault\nagreed that the occupation forces should be limited but\nhe was not authorized to accept a revision of the pre-\nvious figure of 70,000 men for the French zone.\nMershall asked the Council not to attempt to fix specific\nfigures but to agree on the generalized United States pro-\nposal. He said the United States desired to reduce its\nforces as quickly and as far as the situstion permits\nand rejected Molotov's suggestion that the total forces\nin the US and UK zones should equal those in the Soviet\nzone alone. The Council agreed to ask the Allied Control\nCounoil to report by June 1947 on the maximum forces to\nbe permitted in each zons.\nThe Council decided that its next regular meeting would\nbe hold in London in November If all four Foreign\nMinisters attend the United Nations Assembly meeting\nin December in New York, a brief meeting with a limited\nagenda will be held at that time.\nThe agenda for the next session vas then discussed.\nBevin suggested that completion of the Austrien treaty\nbe the first item. Marshall asked that a decision on\nthe agenda avait later developments and that the Ministers\ncommunicate\nC\nL\nNATIONAL RECORDS SERVICE: AND\nto"
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