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I. PREAMBLE.
The preamble to the modus vivendi reads as follows:
"Despite the inability, at this session
of the Council of Foreign Ministers, to reach
agreement on the restoration of the economic
and political unity of Germany, the Foreign
Ministers of France, the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and
the United States will continue their efforts
to achieve this result, and, in particular,
now agree as follows:
The preamble is chiefly derived from a United States
proposal. In the first draft for the modus vivendi, which
was prepared within the United States Delegation, the
following preamble appeared:
"Despite the inability, at this session
of the CFH, to reach agreement upon the uni-
fication of Germany the Four Ministers will
continue their efforts to achieve this result
and, in particularo now agree as follows:"1
This version was approved without objection by the Wéstern
Ministers and submitted by them as the preamble to the first
tripartite propogal, for the modus vivendi 3 presented to the
Soviets on June 12. 2 The Soviets suggested only one sub-
stantive change in this draft: substitution of the phrase
"the restoration of the economic and political unification
of Germany" for the unification of Germany. "3 This change 45
was accepted without objection by the Western Ministers.
1.
USDEL Working Paper/32 rev. 1, June 8, 1949.
2. CFM: Minutes and Records of Decisions, Vol. VI, p. 140.
3. Ibid., p. 149.
4. Ibid. p. 166.
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