EUR Files: Lot 52 D 324: File—G–801 Govt
Draft Letter From the Military Governors of the Western Zones of Occupation of Germany to the President of the Parliamentary Council (Adenauer)1
Dear Herr Adenauer: The Parliamentary Council has been advised by the Ministers President that on the basis of the London agreement it is charged by the Military Governors of the United States, the United Kingdom and France with the preparation of a basic Law [Page 426] (Provisional Constitution) for ratification by the German states after it has received the approval of the Military Governors.
It cannot be determined whether the letter was also signed by General Robertson and General Koenig and actually sent to Adenauer.
The jurisdiction of the Parliamentary Council conferred by the Military Governors is limited to this field. The Military Governors wish it to be clearly understood that the Parliamentary Council has no authority to depart from the task with which it is charged.
- _________________________
(P. Koenig, Général D’Armée.) - _________________________
(Lucius D. Clay, General.) - __________________________
(B. H. Robertson, General.)
- The source
text was transmitted by Ambassador Murphy to Jacob
Beam under cover of the following letter dated
September 28: ↩
“Remembering our previous messages regarding the action to be taken by the three Western Military Governors, as a result of the resolution passed by the Parliamentary Council at Bonn on the subject of the Berlin situation, General Clay has now signed with my concurrence the joint letter dated 29 September addressed to Herr Adenauer, copy of which is attached.”