Editorial Note
The Military Governors and the Ministers President of the U.S., British, and French Zones of Occupation of Germany met at Frankfurt on July 1 to discuss future German political organization. The more than forty officials representing the occupying powers included the following: for the United States—Gen. Clay, Under Secretary of the Army Draper, Ambassador Murphy, Mr. Panuch and Dr. Litchfield; for the United Kingdom—Gen. Robertson, Sir Cecil Weir, Mr. Steel, and Lt. Gen. Macready; for France—Gen. Koenig, Ambassador Tarbé de St. Hardouin, Gen. Noiret, M. Seydoux, and M. Sabatier. The Ministers President present were: from the U.S. Zone—Ehard, Stock, Maier, and Kaisen; from the U.K. Zone—Arnold, Kopf, Luedemann, and Brauer; from the French Zone—Altmeier, Wohleb, and Bock.
The Military Governors read and then handed to the Ministers President formal documents embodying the substance of the London [Page 381] Conference recommendations on the convoking of a Constituent Assembly (document MGMP/P(48)1), the submitting of proposed modifications of existing Land boundaries (MGMP/P(48)2), the drafting of an Occupation Statute (MGMP/P(48)3), and the appointment of Military Government Liaison Officers to advise and assist the Ministers President in these tasks (MGMP/P(48)4). These documents are sometimes referred to collectively as the “German Documents” or the “London Documents”. For the texts of documents 1, 2, and 3, see Germany 1947–1949, pages 275–277, Ruhm von Oppen, Documents on Germany Under Occupation, pages 315–318, or Litchfield, Governing Postwar Germany, pages 542–545, or Documents on the Creation of the German Federal Constitution, pages 43–45.
The formal minutes of this meeting of July 1, document MGMP/M(48)1, are included in CFM Files, Lot M–88, Box 119, File—MGMP/M(48) Documents. Ambassador Murphy reported upon the meeting in telegram 24, July 1, from Frankfurt, not printed (740.00119 Control (Germany)/7–148).