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    "ocrText": "DESLASS!FIED\nE.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nDept. al State letter, Aug. 10, 1972\nBy NLT-HC NARS Date 6.2775\nPART VI. SECOND SERIES OF MEETINGS OF THE ALLIED\nCOMMISSION ON REPARATIONS IN MOSCOW\n(August 7 to August 14, 1945)\nOn August 7, accompanied by several members of the Delegation, the\nUnited States Representative returned to Moscow. On arrival several attempts\nwere made to reach the USSR representative on t he Commission in order to\narrange a meeting. These attempts brought no results.\n'NATIONAL\nARCHIVES ANL\nConference with Mr. Molotov\nRECORDS\nthe\nSERVICE\nIn the meantime, at the request of the United States Representative,\nAmbassador Harriman had made arrangements for a conference with Mr. Molotov.\nThis conference was held on August 10. The U.S. Representative repeated to\nMr. Molotov the content of the letter addressed to him by Secretary Byrnes\nto the effect that the future work of the Reparations Commission had been\nso radically effected by the Berlin Protocol that there would be little ad-\nvantage in holding future sessions in Moscow. (See Appendix 26). The work\nbefore the Commission was primarily technical in nature and required in-\nvestigations and analyses in Berlin in conjunction with the Control Council.\nThis could only be done in Germany.\nMr. Molotov insisted that the Reparations Commission still was re-\nsponsible for formulating a plan for removals. He insisted that it was the\nfunction of the Commission to determine what percentage of industrial\ncapacity should be permitted to remain in Germany. Upon completion of a\nstudy of removals, a plan should be submitted to the Control Council f or its\nconsideration. The formulation of the plan, Mr. Molotov contended, was to be\nmade in Moscow where, hesaid, the necessary data existed.\nSECRET"
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