Telegram from Lewis Douglas to Secretary of State George Marshall

INCOMING TELEGRAM DEPARTMENT OF STATE-DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS TELEGRAPH BRANCH 1-16 DECLASSIFIED Action: EUR E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Control 4540 Info: Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973 SS UE By NLT HC ; NARS Date 4-22-75 Rec'à December 15, 1947 5:11 p.m. C AA AS FROM: London LE OFD TO: Secretary of State TRC OIE NO: 6479, December 15, 8 p.m. the DCR LOG US URGENT is "NATIONAL SERVICE" RECORDS AND BAVERIVE to DELSEC 1548 FOR THE PRESIDENT, VANDENBERG, CONNALLY, EATON, BLOOM, AND LOVETT. Seventeenth and final CFM meeting, December 15, Bevin presiding. Molotov asked the Council to hear representatives of the German People's Congress as spokesmen for the German people. Marshall, Bidault, and Bevin opposed this suggestion on the ground that the Congress is not repre- sentative of political opinion in Germany. Marshall said the US delegation came to this session of the Council hopeful (one) of reaching a general settle- ment to end the division of Germany, and (two) of ob- taining a treaty reestablishing the independence of Austria. He added that Molotov's statement of Friday on reparations was not acceptable to the US delegation. Bidault denied Molotov's charge that the western powers had proposed the termination of all reparation payments by Germany to the Soviet Union. He proposed that experts study whether and how much reparations from current pro- duction could be paid by Germany. Molotov renewed his proposal for reparations from current German production and the fixing of the amount of reparations to be paid by Germany to the USSR at ten billion dollars. Bevin said Molotov was insisting on an agreement on reparations as a condition to any general settlement on Germany and INFORMATION COPY