Telegram from Lewis Douglas to Secretary of State George Marshall

DECLASSIFIED E. O. 11652, Sec. '3(E) and S(D) or (E) INCOMING TELEGRAM Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973 By NLT- HC , NARS Date 4-22'75 DEPARTMENT OF STATE-DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS TELEGRAPH BRANCH 2N Action: EUR Control 3511 Info: SS Rec'd December 11, 1947 UE 6:46 p.m. c AA FROM: London AS LE TO: Secretary of State OFD TRC HO: 6443, December 11. OIE DCR US URGENT LOG DELSEC 1542 FOR THE PRESIDENT, VANDENBERG, CONNALLY, EATON, BLOOM AND LOVETT Fifteenth CFM meeting, December 11, Marshall presiding. The Council accepted the proposal discussed yesterday involving the breaking up of German gartels and other monopolistic arrangements. It also accepted in principle a proposal to institute greater Allied control through the Control Council over the distribution of coal, pover and steel and their utilization in Germany as well as the amounts shipped abroad. The Council apreed to revise the level of German peaceful industry adopted in March 1946 so as to meet both the needs of security and the needs of the German economy Germany will be left with sufficient capacity to produce eventually 11,500,000 tons of steel yearly. Bidault proposed and Bevin and Marshall agreed thnt the rehabilitation of German industry be regulated in such a way as to prevent its revival at a rate faster than that of the sconomic reconstruction or other democratic countries in Europe. Molotov agreed to study the proposal. The Council referred to a drafting committee for further study & proposed directive to the Allied Control Council to make by March 1948 a fresh determination of° German industrial plants and equipusent which are to be removed as reperations. The Council discussed a proposal that the delivery of plant and equipment SMP IAL INFORMATION COPY