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INCOMING TELEGRAM
DEPARTMENT OF STATE-DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS
TELEGRAPH BRANCH
9-D
PLAIN
A
Action: SA/M
Info:
Control 9661
S/S
U-E
Rec'd Marck 31, 1947
A-B
3:41 p.m.
A-N
FROM: Moscow
EUR
LE
TO:
Secretary of State
OCD
RECORDS
CIG
NO:
1114, March 31, 6 p.M.
-
:
service"
DC/L
ITP
DELSEC 1374 FOR LINCOLN WHITE AND STONE FROM MCDERMOTT
ESP
OFD
Secretarv Marshall made following statement on economic
FC
principles at CFM this afternoon.
OIC
PA
"Questions relating to German economic principles.
DC/R
"Statement by the head of the US delegation. There is
much that the four of us have agreed is desirable in
principle: we agree that German resources should be
pooled and equitably shared; that there should be en
export-import plan; on the necessity for financial
reform; on the need to subject resources in Germany to
German law; that German coal, pover, and steel should
be consumed economically; and that the level of industry
plan should be reviewed.
"But we need to reach agreement on the implementing of
political and economic unity. We must agree on the
creation of German central agencies and the establish-
ment and scope of a provisional government, on freedom
of movement for ideas, persons and goods, the breaking
down of zonal barriers, on reparations, and on sharing
the temporary deficit.
"We must make certain, however, that when we reach
agreement, the agreement means the same thing to all of
us. We had a paper agreement at Potsdam, but it has
only partially been implemented or made effective.
Unless we can have a real meeting of minds and a real
desire to carry out both the spirit and the letter of
our agreements, 1t were better none were reached. We -
must not repeat the experience we have had in implemen-
ting the terms of the Potsdam Agreement. We can never
reach real agreement on the basis of ultimatums or
immovable. positions.
We regret that
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