Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, Council of Foreign Ministers; Germany and Austria, Volume III

CFM Files: Lot M–88: Box 141: CFM/P/49 Documents

Proposed of the Soviet Delegation to the Council of Foreign Ministers ¹

secret

Paris , 25th May, 1949.

CFM/P/49/2 (Revised)

On the Unity of Germany and the Conditions of Its Realisation

1. In order to ensure the economic and political Unity of Germany:

a) The activity of the Control Council to be reestablished on its former basis as the organ representing supreme authority in Germany;

b) The Interallied Kommandatura of Berlin to be reestablished for the coordination of measures concerning the administration of the whole city of Berlin and for ensuring the normal life of Berlin as a whole.

2. Considering, at the same time, that the realisation of the economic and political Unity of Germany is impossible without the creation of a single Central German Organ whose competence would extend to all questions of economic and state organisation affecting Germany as a whole, it is essential:

a) To create, on the basis of the German economic bodies at present existing in the Eastern and Western Zones, an all German State Council as an economic and administrative centre of Germany with the functions of government in matters of economic and state organisation mentioned above, the supreme authority of the Control Council being maintained.²

b) To reestablish the “Magistrat” of Berlin.

The question of the date of election to the Berlin “Magistrat” to be referred to the Interallied Kommandatura of Berlin for consideration.

1. This proposal was discussed by the Council of Foreign Ministers at its 2nd through 6th meetings, May 24–28, 1949; for the reports on these meetings see pp. 917–928 passim.

2. In CFM/P/49/2 this paragraph read:

   “a) To create an all-German State Council on the basis of the economic organs at present existing in the Eastern and Western Zones.”

   (CFM Files: Lot M–88: Box 141: CFM/P/49 Documents)