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    "ocrText": "(CPM No. 3 (Revised)\n3\nlikroly to becomo a source of conflict and rivalry among the big powers\nthan a divided Germanyo Thus we have wanted to see established a Germany\nwithin which the zonal boundaries would represent merely lines demarcating\nthe areas in which the occupying powers were keeping their garrisons for\nthe common purpose of security and within which the German people and their\nelected representatives would be free to develop their own econchic and\npolitical life except for certain minimum restrictions which the major\npowers would agrea to enforce in the common interesto\nIdeally we would, therefore, have the major powors direct and con-\nTRUEAR\nfine their joint efforts to\nARCHIVES AND\n\"INATIONAL RECORDS SERVICE\"\n(1) the continued disarnament of Germanyo\nCOVERINED\n(2) the develogment and preservation of democratic institu-\ntions and civil rights in Germany, and\n(3) the measures required to insure the utilisation of\nGerman resources in the interest of Europe as a whole.\nThe first telo, falling in the political field, need not be discussed here.\"\nAs to the third, the United States has considered that Germany should not\nenjoy the exclusive right to dispose of its key economic resources as 16\nsees fit. We hava realized the importance of the German economy to the\nrest of Europe. In recognition of the importance of international access\nto the coal and steel of the Ruhr, wa as an occupying power, have entered\ninto commitments to export apecified proportions of Gezman coal output;\nand we have favored international control over the distribution of key\nRuhre products as betwison Gorman consumption and exports whenever an inde-\npendent Gorman government is lie have considered German\nesonomic recovery essential, not only to create an economic environment\nfavorable to the establishment and of a peaceful democratic German\nsociety\n*See the papers \"Germany: Democratization (CFM Noo 1) and \"Form and -\nScope of a Provisional Political Organization for Germany (CFM No. 2)"
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