Editorial Note
Between February 23 and March 6, 1948, representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg held twelve meetings on German problems. The meetings were held in the Old India Office—the quarters of the German Department of the British Foreign Office. Members of the various delegations included the following:
United States
Lewis W. Douglas, Ambassador in the United Kingdom
General Lucius D. Clay, Military Governor for Germany
Robert D. Murphy, Political Adviser for Germany
Charles E. Saltzman, Assistant Secretary of State
Samuel Reber, Deputy Director, Office of European Affairs, Department of State
James W. Riddleberger, Counselor of the Mission in Berlin
Edwin M. Martin, Acting Chief, Division of Occupied Areas Economic Affairs, Department of State Edward Litchfield, Director, Civil Affairs Division, Office of Military Government for Germany (US)
United Kingdom
Sir William Strang, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the German Section, Foreign Office General Sir Brian Robertson, Commander-in-Chief in Germany
Sir Edmund Hall-Patch, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office
Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office
Christopher E. Steel, Political Adviser to the Commander-in-Chief in Germany
Patrick H. Dean, Head of the German Political Department, Foreign Office
John W. Nicholls, Head of the German Commercial Relations and Industry Department, Foreign Office
France
René Massigli, Ambassador in the United Kingdom
General Pierre Koenig, Commander-in-Chief for Germany
Maurice Couve de Murville, Director General for Political Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Hervé Alphand, Director General for Economic, Financial, and Technical Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Jacques Tarbé de Saint-Hardouin, Political Adviser to the Commander-in-Chief in Germany
Pierre de Leusse, Deputy Director, Office of Central European Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Jacques-Camille Paris, Minister Counselor of the Embassy in the United Kingdom
François Valery, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
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Baron Hervé de Gruben, Secretary General of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Vicomte Alain Obert de Thieusies, Ambassador in the United Kingdom
Netherlands
Jonkeer Edgar Michiels van Verduynen, Ambassador in the United Kingdom
Dr. H. R. Hirschfeld, Commissioner for German Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Luxembourg
André Clasen, Minister in the United Kingdom
Colonel Albert Wehrer, Chief of the Military Mission at Berlin
The documentation that follows comprises a selection of materials on the proceedings of the London Conference and certain related and supplementary papers. Telegraphic reports from the United States Delegation and instructions to the Delegation are included in the central numerical files of the Department of State. The complete United States Delegation minutes of regular Conference meetings, the texts of formal Conference documents, and a variety of Delegation position papers, drafts, and correspondence are included in CFM Files, Lot M–88, Box 118. Other special files which include important files on the Conference are cited in annotations at the appropriate; places.