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effective. This alternativo was dismissed immediately, because it
was based upon the false assumption that the difficulties arose out
of defective linison rather than out of the more fundamental causes
suggested above. In the second place, it was suggested that the
State Department could retain the existing organization but estab-
lish a direct line of command and communication. This idea too was
believed to be unsound, for it assumed that an organization hired,
paid and disciplined by one department could effectively operate as
part of another. The third idea, and the one recommended, was the
complete transfer of non-military responsibility to the Department
of State.
Basic organizational requirements for the achievement of U.S.
foreign policy in Germany were thought to include: (1) Presidential
assignment to the State Department of direct supervision over the
administration of policy wi thin Germany; (2) State Department con-
trol and responsibility for adninistrative funds and participating
responsibility for program funds; and (3) disciplinary authority
over the organization and personnel adninistering occupation policy.
To meet these requirements it would be necessary that the senior
U.S. representative in Germany, the OMGUS organization, and the
funds for Government and Relief in Occupied areas be transferred
the
to the State Department.
Kimball was aware of the adninistrative difficulties that
would beset the Department upon assumption of such a major respon-
sibility, but he assumed that certain essential arrangements that
were developed in previous planning would be employed. These in-
cluded continued "housekeeping" support from the Army, the re-
tention of military personnel for a time. until civilian replace-
ments could, be made, and the phasing of the transfer over a period
of six months or more. In Washington, as in Germany, the decision
on organization awaited the development of basic international agree-
ment.
Washington ,reements on Germany
After a great amount of preliminary planning and interallied
negotiation, a series. of documents known as the Washington agree-
ments on Germany were announced by the Foreign inisters on April 8,
1949, These included: (1) a basio mem- randum regarding the prin-
ciples that would govern the exercise of Allied powers and respon-
sibilities following the establishment of the German Federal Republic,
(2) an Occupation Statute, which defined the authority that the
Allies reserved to themselves and the sphere that they would turn
over to the German government to be newly astablished, and (3) an
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