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    "ocrText": "64\nBy General Order No.31, August 2, 1949 there was established\na Kreis Resident Office Quelifications Board, consisting of\nFrandis A. Sheehan, Chairman, Richard F. Wagner, Lawrence E.\nNorrie, and Earle A. Cleveland. The Board was asked to develop\na restatement of the qualifications that would be required for\nKreis Resident Officers after the establishment of the High\nCommission. These qualifications were to be premised on the\nassumption that the Kreis Resident Officer would be chiefly a\nPublic Affairs Officer .concerned with the promotion of democra-\ntic ideas and institutions. The High Commissioner wished the\nBoard to consider qualities of person.l character, understanding\nof democratic institutions, and pro ficiency in German language.\nAfter the statement of qualifications was formulated, it was\nexpected that the Board would personally examine the personnel\nassigned to the OMGUS licison and security work and determine\nthe extent to which each individual met the quolifications.\nThe examination was to consider: (1) the educational and exper-\nience record of the indivudual, (2) the recommendations of the\nLand Commissioners, and. (3) the impression made during the per-\nsonal interviews. The Board was also directed to make recom-\nmendations for the future direction and treining of Kreis Resident\nOfficers. This Board after learning more fully the qualifica-\ntions which the High Commissioner and his Deputy considered\ndesirable spent most of August interviewing personnel in the\nfield. As a result somewhat more than holf of the Security and\nLiaison Officers were found qualified and in mid-October became\nKreis Resident Officers, 2\nSome mention has been mode cbove, of the second major problem\nwhich the planners identified in June: the problem of defining\nconditions of employment after the takeover. nctuolly that was\na problem which was conditioned by assumptions and .greements\nover which the personnel planners had little control. Once it\nwas decided that most HICOG employees would be limited Foreign\nService appointees and that, as far as possible, the laws and\nregulations relating to regular Foreign Service would apply, ques-\ntions of pay, leave, travel, and the like were well on the road\nto solution. Other basic conditions of employment were determined\nby the terms of the agreements with the Army relating to logistic\nsupport, and the se are discussed elsewhere.\n¹General Order No. 31, and attached papers, August 2, 1949.\nRecords of OMGUS, Office of the Adjutant General, \"AF 3004, GE\nOrders OMGUS\", 1949.\n²Interviews with HICOG officials.\nCONTIDANT LAL"
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