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all in their power to preserve a avorable atmosphere in Berlin, but Mr.
Molotov claimed that such instructions to theSoviet Military Governor were
unnecessary. Nevertheless, after that date these attempts to overthrow the
City Government increased in violence.
8. On September 14, 1948, the representatives of the Governments of the
United States, France and the United Kingdom, acting on specific instructions,
called the attention of the Soviet Government to the Soviet military Governor's
disregard of the agreements reached during the Moscow discussions and re-
quested that he be instructed to give effect to them.
9. The Soviet Government's reply of September 18, however, upheld the
Soviet Military Governor's position. The Soviet Government furbher con-
firmed its intention to Misregard its commitment to lift the restrictions
imposed on transport and communication by seeking to impose restrictions
which had not before been in effect.
With respect to trade, the Soviet requirement that the licensing of
trade with Berlin be placed in the hands of the Soviet Military Authorities
made plain the Soviet Government's intention to obtain exclusive control over
the trade of Berlin.
As regards the powers the Four-Power Financial Commission, the Soviet
reply asserted that the western occupying powers desired to establish con-
trol over all operations of the German Bank of Emission. In fact the United
States, the United Kingdom and French Military Governors sought only to
secure the Soviet Military Governor's acceptance of the agreed principal
that the Four-Power Financial Commission should control the operations
of the bank with respect to the financial arrangements relating to the
currency change-over and to the continued provision and use of the German
mark of the Soviet Zone in the City of Berlin. (I. E. in Berlin only and
not in the Soviet Zone). In the light of Mr. Molotov's statements
during the discussion of the Soviet reply, it became clear that no assurance
was given that the Soviet Military Governor would be prepared to proceed
on the previously agreed basis. This in this matter, as in others, the in-
tention of the Soviet Government was manifestly to impose conditions
nullifying the authority of the Western Occupying Powers and to acquire
complete control over the City of Berlin.
10. For the Governments of the United States, France and the United
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