Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, Germany and Austria, Volume II

740.00119 EW/5–2248: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the United States Delegate to the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency (Dorr)

secret
urgent

Washington, June 6, 1948—9 p. m.

867. For Dorr. Reurtels 1125,¹ 1092,² 1055³ following message sent by Army to General Clay:⁴

“Re TT 9558, 2 Jun.⁵

Following has been agreed re resumption reparation deliveries from US Zone to Albania, Czecho, and Yugo:

1. State instructing Dorr to inform IARA representatives these countries individually that necessary administrative arrangements being made in Germany by you to expedite reparation deliveries to them and that representatives their Govts there should get in touch with you regarding details these arrangements. Dorr also being instructed to refuse Assembly discussion on basis matter already taken up with countries concerned. Dorr to advise you when he has acted at Brussels

2. Because of necessity explanation in IARA if deliveries further withheld resumption delivery of clearly general purpose equipment should begin immediately.

3. It is understood that you will immediately cause any necessary recheck to be made of all equipment in the US Zone which has been allocated to these three countries in order to take all reasonable precautions that all equipment especially adapted to the production of war materials is destroyed and that only general purpose equipment is delivered to them. Your suggestion that you approach Robertson for similar recheck is excellent. Very much hope he will agree.”⁶

Please consider paragraph one above as instructions to you and advise Department and USPolAd re your discussions with Albanian, Czeeho, and Yugo delegates and report any collateral developments.⁷

Marshall

1. Not printed.
2. Not printed, but see footnote 4 to telegram 1055, May 22, from Brussels, p. 752.
3. Ante, p. 752.
4. The message quoted here was sent as telegram W–8312, June 7, from the Department of the Army to General Clay at Berlin.
5. The reference here is to the record of a trans-Atlantic teletype conference between General Clay and Under Secretary of the Army Draper in the course of which General Clay agreed to resume deliveries of IARA allocated equipment to the satellites on the basis of numbered paragraph 3 of this telegram.
6. In telegram CC–4618, June 9, from Berlin to the Department of the Army, not printed, General Clay reported that reparation deliveries to the satellites would be resumed in 2 or 3 days. He also reported that the British had agreed to make shipments on the basis of the policy outlined in numbered paragraph 3. (USPolAd Germany Files, 400.a Reparations)
7. Following informal statements to the Yugoslav, Czechoslovak, and Albanian delegates to the IARA by U.S. Delegate Dorr, the satellite delegates announced to the IARA Assembly on June 8 that the United States had cleared up the delivery matter to their satisfaction, and the Yugoslav protest was removed from the Assembly agenda. See telegram 1181, June 8, from Brussels, not printed. (740.00119 EW/6–848)