Telegram from Walter Bedell Smith to Secretary of State George Marshall

from INCOMING TELEGRAM DEPARTMENT OF STATE-DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS TELEGRAPH BRANCH 8-N A DECLASSIFIED Action: EUR Info: E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E) CORRECTED PAGES ONE & TWO 3/22/47 S/S Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973 11:30 a.m. U-E By NLT- He , NARS Date 7.14.75 CORRECTIONS UNDERSCORED C A-H Control 6580 FE LE Rec'd March 21, 1947 OCD 1:25 p.m. CIG DC/L=C ESP FROM: Moscow FC DC/R TO: Secretary of State NO: 923, March 21, 4 p.m. DELSEC 1325 There follows a broad review of developments in the Council of° Foreign Ministers during the past ten days. Hereafter, a cable will be sent summarizing each Council Foreign Ministers meeting. The first nine CFM meetings have been taken up almost entirely with discussion of the Allied Control Council's report on Germany. Restatements to date of the positions of the Four Powers on the German question have in general followed positions taken in the Allied Control Council meetings. Molotov has insisted that all CFM decisions be based on the principles of the Potsdam Conference. Bevin has maintained that the UK will implement the Pots- dam decisions if all rather than only some of these decisions are carried out. He has indicated a strong desire to settle the oxmerous German questions quickly and has insisted that CFM take no action which would increase the economic burden of the occupying powers. Bidault has stressed the special interests of France in regard to coal and the Ruhr as distinct from the interests of other allies in a German settlement. Paul The following SERVICEM INFORMATION COPY