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34
Military Commander was to act for the maintenance of law and order
and to support U.S. policy on "request" of the High Commissioner,
The revised statement, on the other hand, dropped all the earlier
reference to emergency conditions under which supreme authority
would revert to the Military Commander and spoke only of emergency
conditions under which he mi ght act for the protection of his
troops 1
The hrmy also suggested that provision be made for the line of
command in case the designee for High Commissioner should as sume
his duties prior to the termination of Military Government. Sec-
tion 4 of the Executive Order, therefore, provided that until the
termination of Military Government he should be the Military Gover-
nor and report to the Secretary of Defense:
In the event that the High Commissioner shall assume his
duties in accordance with this Executive Order prior to
By the
TRONAN
the date that the Military Government of the United States
Zone is terminated, he shall during such interval report
stance
a
to the Secretary of Defense, through the Secretary of the
hrmy, and shall be the United States Military Governor
with all the powers thereof, including those vested in the
United States Military Governor under all international
agreements.2
The relationships between the Commissioner and the Commander
were further explained and defined in the Adninistrativo Directive
given Mr. McCloy, but long before this was issued, he and his ad-
visers had ample opportunity to help formulate the directives go-
ing out to the Military Commander. In effect, the Executive Order
establishing the U.S. Office of High Commissioner provided that
the Commander-in-Chief, European Command, should be relieved of
those rosponsibilities which he held as Military Governor of Ger-
many. It was necessary, therefore, that directives3 relating to
his mission as Military Governor be rescinded. Inasmuch as the
Executive Order also prescribed certain new responsibilities and
relutionships which the Commender-in-Chief would have in relation
to the High Commissioner, it was necessary to modify the Unified
Command Plan4 so as to include the necessary instructions.
For subsequent discussion of command in case of emergency see
papers of October-December, 1949, in Records of HICOG, Office file of
the High Commissioner, "322 Gen. Organizations".
2For subsequent discussion of commend in case of emergency see
ibid.
3In JCS 1779/1. The following discussion of command responsi-
bility is based upon documents scattered through Records of HICOG,
Office file of the High Commissioner, "#1 and #2 322 HICOM", 1949.
4JCS 1259/27.
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