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    "ocrText": "TOP SECROI\n- 10 -\n(4) Soviet Enterprises in the Eastern Zone.\nThe Western Powers agreed on the following summary\nstatement in CFM/P/49/3 concerning the Soviet \"A.G.°S\nin\nEastern Germany V Any industrial enterprise in\nGermany whose ownership or control was acquired after\nMay 8th, 1945, by or on behalf of any foreign powers\nwould be surrendered and disposed of in accordance\nwith appropriate German legislation unless such\nacquisition has quadripartite approval and the\ninterest so approved is subjected to german law.\"\nThe experts of the Western Powers agreed on the\nfollowing arguments which would be used against Soviet\nownership of these enterprises.\n(a) Control over the productive facilities\nof one section of Germany by a foreign power was\nincompatible with the economic unity of the\ncountry.\n(b) Soviet control of the enterprises con-\nstituted a permanent interference in the Eastern\nZone which was economically and politically\ndangerous to a unified Germany. 2\n(c) The Potsdam Agreement did not sanction\nthe acquisition of enterprises by any of the\noccupying powers. It provided that the repara\ntion claims of the Soviet Union should be met by\nremovals from the Soviet Zone and from appropriate\nGerman external assets.\nThere was considerable difference of opinion among\nthe Western Powers over the actual procedure for bringing\nabout the relinquishment of Soviet control over the A.d. S.\nOne point at issue concerned what should be done if, after\nshould then claim the right to remove the equipment of the\nagreeing to relinquish control over the A.G.° S the Soviets\nA.G. °s to the Soviet Union as reparations. In discussion\nof this point, Mr. Acheson observed \"that 1t might be\ndifficult to deny the Russians rights under Potsdam to\n1. USDEL Working Paper/\" rev. 1, May 29, 1949, VII.\n2. Preliminary Tripartite Conversations: Report to the\nForeign Ministers, May 20, 1949, p. 3.\n3. USDEL Working Paper/? rev. 1, May 29, 1949, VII.\nHARRY S. TRUMAN LIBRARX\nTOP SECREAL"
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