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Revised Drafts
A document June 28 and 29. it second and much longer CPG revision document
first revision of the policy directive was distributed as
was circulated and a third revision appeared as a WGA third revision of
a WGA as a WGA document on July 22 and as a document August
on August 3, CPG issuance the following day 1 The of the in-
mid-August of a new scheme of government in Germany.
10 and as a represents State Department thinking on the This eve revision,
auguration not now to NcCloy and his advisers in they Germany, would was have given to
too, though close scrutiny, since they assumed it. is briefly
particularly it for some time. For those reasons directive. summa-
rized live with below, even though not approved as the formal
Content of the Drafts
all the early drafts of the policy statement, statement the purpose of
Through remained the same: to provide a current Commissioner.
of the the objectives directive and policies for the guidance of the High
of the second revision the statement of political to en- ob-
courage along democratic the lines in close association to with discourage the free the resurg- of
jectives German people to develop their political peoples
By the became time clear and explicit. Briefly, the policy independence was
TRUETY
PRATIONAL
western of anti-democratic Europe and the Atlantic groups; community; and to support Germen unification on
ence
a democratic and federal basis.
The Conmissioners made it clear that, while the Allies, the United States
section on the jurisdiction of the Allied High Comhission under
and the statute, retained supreme cuthority, limits within which
the would Occupation regard the Statute as defining the procedures broadest under which the Com-
it would operate. individual The principles Commissioners and would operate and the division the
mission of and the between them were defined in the Occupition Statute, Commission.
Washington authority Agreements, and the Charter it of the could Allied be done High consistently
within These order to should these encourage be rules, observed political everything and so and should far economic as be done unity. by tripartite action in
authority ties were by the Federal Republic and the various Laender,
The Commissioner, concerned, was to encourage maxinum exercise of and so far
insofar as relations with the German governmental authori-
lWGA D-3a; WGA D-3b; WGA D-3c; CPG-D2/52; CPG D-2/5b.
CONFIDENTILL
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