Telegram from Lewis Douglas to Secretary of State George Marshall

INCOMING TELEGRAM DEPARTMENT OF STATE-DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS TELEGRAP,H BRANCH D Action: EUR DECLASSIFIED Info: SS E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) A UE Depr. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973 C By NLT-2JC , NARS Date 4.22.75 Control 7263 AS LE Rec'd. Nov. 25, 1947 OFD 10:57 p.m. DCR LOG FROM: London SISR TO: Secretary of State NO: 6191, November 25, 10 p.m. US URGENT DELSEC 1501 FOR THE PRGSIDENT, VANDENBERG, CONNALLY, EATON, BLOOM AND LOVETT. First meeting Council of Foreign Ministers opened November 25 in Lancaster House with Bevin, Molotov, Bidault and Marshall present, It was agreed that the chairmanship of the London session will rotate each meeting and that the Council will meet daily at 3:30 p.n., Marshall introduced a suggestion to speed up the Council's work. Each Minister under the plan would circulate all prepared statements to his colleagues in advance of the meetings in order to avoid reading them before the Council, thus saving the time taken to translate theme The plan was accepted by all as a guide to be followed whenever possible. Bevin, as Chairman, raised the question of the Council's agenda, on which the Minister Deputies could not agree during their meeting here last week. The US, UK and France had proposed that the Austrian treaty be con- sidered by the Council before the German problem. Molotov reaffirmed the Soviet position by saying that the German question more important than the Austrian treaty and therefore should be considered first, specifically, the procedure for preparation of the German peace treaty. Marshall common us in \ INFORMATION COPY