Telegram from Lewis Douglas to Secretary of State George Marshall

INCOMING TELEGRAM DEPARTMENT OF STATE-DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS TELEGRAPH BRANCH 2N & ZAL DECLASSIFIED Action: EUR E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E) Control 3511 Infos Dept. of State letter, Aug, 9, 1973 SS By UE NLT- HC # NARS Date 4-2-25 Rec'd December 11, 1947 6:46 p.m. C AA FROM: London AS LE TO: Secretary of State OFD TRC NO: 6443, December 11. s. OIE ARCHIVES "NATIONAL SERVICE* RECORDS AND MI DCR US URGENT LOG is DELSEC 1542 FOR THE PRESIDENT, VANDENBERG, CONNALLY, EATON, BLOOM AND LOVETT Fifteenth CFM meeting, December 11, Marshall presiding. The Council accepted the proposal discussed yesterday involving the breaking up of German cartels and other monopolistic arrangements. It also accepted in principle a proposal to institute greater Allied control through the Control Council over the distribution of coal, pover and steel and their utilization in Germany as vell as the amounts shipped abroad. The Council arreed to revise the level of German peaceful industry adopted in March 1946 so as to meet both the needs of security and the needs of the German economy Germany will be left vith sufficient eapacity to produce sventually 11,500,000 tons of steel yearly. Bidault proposed and Bevin and Marshall agreed thnt the rehabilitation of German industry be regulated in such a way as to provent its revival at a rate faster then that of the economic roconstruction of other democratic countries in Europe. Molotov agreed to study the proposal. The Council referred to a drafting committee for further study a proposed directive to the Allied Control Counc ll to make by March 1948 a fresh determination of° German industrial plants and equipusent which are to be removed as reparations. The Couneil discussed a proposal that the delivery of plant and equipment INFORMATION COPY