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INCOMING TELEGRAM
DEPARTMENT OF STATE-DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS
TELEGRAPH BRANCH
SECRET
14
A
D
DECLASSIFIED
Action: s/s
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973
Control 9699
Info :
LOO
By NLT-
, NARS Date
Rec'd March 31, 1947
DO/R
4:35 p.m.
FROM: Moscow
TO:
Secretary of State
NO:
1118, March 31, 10 p.m.
URGENT
DELSEC 1375
TO ACHESON PERSONAL EYES ONLY FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM
MARSHALL
Please deliver immediately the following to the President:
Dear Mr. President:
We are now locked in the final discussions regarding
economic and political unity and regarding political
organization of Germany. The vital points are the
level of industry, with related demands for repara-
tions from current production (having in mind that to
raise the level certain plants now allocated to Russia
must be retained in Germany; othervise no increase in
the level of industry is possible); coal for France
which also directly affects the problem of raising
the level; and the demands for reparation from current
production. Later, on the agenda are: the Four-Power
Pact; the Ruhr problem; and the location of boundaries,
which, on the Eastern Front, have an important bearing
on the density of population and the supply of food
from a rich agricultural district. These matters are
related to the problem of unity but cannot yet be dis-
oussed in detail.
I will now quote instructions which I am about to give
the Amer ican Delegation unless I hear from you to the
contrary.
Smonni
as HATIONAL AND
INFORMATION COPY
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