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CONF IDEN Thill
32
U.S. occupation of Germany from the Department of the Army to the
Department of State and ECA. Actually it defined with considerable
accuracy the working arrangements which would govem the exercise
of authority by the High Commissioner for Germany. 1 It did not,
however, give the position statutory existence nor did it constitute
a directive for the incumbent. It recognized that other agreements
and directives were necessary and that these would constitute, in
part, the end products of the planning which this letter should
initiate.
and
what
The Legal Working Group of CPG
SERVICE
In its initial organization the Committee on Planning for Ger-
many, CPG, provided for a Legal Working Group. The assignments
to the Group included the drafting of an Executive Order establish-
ing and :defining the position of High Commissioner, appointment
papers for John J. McCloy, an Executive Order appointing McCloy
as ECA trepresentative in Germany, and an administrative directivé.
It was to concern itself also with any over-all policy or ad-
ministrative directives which ECA might issue for McCloy, with
the policy directive which the Office of German Affairs was pre-
paring, and with the directive to the Commander-in-Chief in
Europe, drafted by. the Army 2
The Group was originally made up of J. M. Raymond for the
State Department, Lt. Col. R. K. Smathers for the army, and Norman
Paul for ECA: John Furman was later acted to the State Department
reprosentation.³
Executive Order 10062
In drafting the Executive Order establishing the position of
United States High Commissioner 'for Germany, the Legal Norking Group
of CPG worked closely with LicCloy, Byrbade, and offici ls of the
Bureau of the Budget. By the first of June an acceptable draft was
ready, and Executive Order 10062 was signed by the President on
June 6, 1949. Besidos citing his authority to create such a position
and declaring it created, the President gave the force of law with
little change to some of those basic principles which the Secretaries
of Army and State and the Chief of ECA had agreed upon by an exchange
of letters. Section 2. stated:
lcpg D-l.
16
2CPG Memo No. 6.
3CPG Memo No. 2 and No. 2A.
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