Office of the Historian

Pauley Files

No. 1045
Proposal by the British Delegation1

[Extract2]

A Tentative Suggestion for Amendments to the Proposals on Reparations of the Government of the United States

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Note: The Soviet Government might be asked to enter into an undertaking as regards valuable foodstuffs and coal in the Russian Zone of Germany as it existed in 1937 being made available to the rest of Germany in accordance with detailed terms to be drawn up by the Control Council after full enquiry into the effects. This agreement might run for 12 months and be subject to reconsideration thereafter.

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S. D. Waley
[ Babelsberg ,] 23rd July, 1945.
  1. Printed from a carbon copy on which there is an uncertified typed signature.↩
  2. For the other sections of this proposal, see document No. 917.↩