Telegram from Lewis Douglas to Secretary of State George Marshall

INCOMING TELEGRAM DEPARTMENT OF STATE-DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS TELEGRAPH BRANCH A 14 DECLASSIFIED Action: EUR E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Control 7627 Infor Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973 SS Rec'd November 26, 1947 UE By NLT. tic , NARS Date 4.23.75 6:07 p.m. C AA As London IE OFD 10: Secretary of State DCF 260 NO: 6210, November 26, 9 p.m. URGENT DELSEC 1504. FOR THE PRESIDENT, VANDENBERG, CONNALLY, EATON, BLOOM, AND LOVETT. Second CFM meeting November 26, Molotov presiding. The Council approved its agenda and agreed on the following order of° discussing the aix items: ciples, level of Germen postwar economy and reparations; treaty; frontiers and procedure; (3) German economic pr in- (1) Austrian treaty; (2) preparation of the German peace (4) form and scope of the provisional political organization of Germany (5) implementation of decisions taken at the Moscow CFM session on demilitarization} (6) US draft dis- armament and demilitarization treaty. The Council then referred the Austrian question, including deputies who will report back to the Council December the report of the Austrian Treaty Commission, to the Austrian 5. Agreement on the agenda came when Molotov abandoned his position that the German question be discussed first and after he had read long prepared statement blaming the US and UK for delaying the conclusion of a derman treaty and accusing them of seeking "an imperialist peace" while the USSR sought a "democratic peace". He summarized Soviet views on the German question and listed as the two most important and urgent itema the formation of "an all-German democratic government come S. INFORMATION COPY us 15