Report, Annex 3 to Council of Foreign Ministers Report 3, Land Reform, Public Ownership and Deconcentration and Decartelization
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OCR Page 1 of 7DECLASSIFIED
E. o. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
By NLT-HC : NARS Date 4.22.75
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973
Annes 3 to CFM 35.
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LAND REBORM. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP AND DECONCENTRATION AND DECARTELIZATION
The Problem
To discover a basia for agreement on econouic institutional reforma am
particularly in the spheres of land reform, decoscentration and decartelisation
of industry and public ownership de in Germany as a vhole which will insure the
necessary demooratisation and at the asme time will not adversel'y affect the
production of commodities in critically short $ Aply.
Discusaion:
It is the basic polioy of this Government to offect a democratization of
German economic life while at the same time enabling that economy to partici
pate in the rehabilitation of Europs. This policy, which was laid down at
Potadan and in JCS 1067, contemplates a program of Gand reform and the
elimination of exceasive concentrations of sconomic power thereby subjecting
such institutions to nore democratic atructure.
Land Reform
A land reform program for the brealing up of large estates and the
resettlement of refugees was introduced into the American Zous in September
1946 and is now being implemented. This program, which is in accordance
with the CEM decision at Moscow to conclude the desocratization program,
is now at the stage whore land sattlement commissions have been established
in the Laender in the American Zone. Thus far there have been no exproe
priations of estates which the law envisages but such action, 11 is hoped,
will
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