Editorial Note
The Foreign Ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France met at Washington, September 10–14, to consider, inter alia, the report of the High Commissioners on contractual negotiations with the Federal Republic. They agreed on the text of an instruction to the High Commissioners which outlined the procedure for further talks with the German representatives and on the text of a draft agreement on general relations with the Federal Republic.
[Page 1522]For the minutes of the Foreign Ministers meetings at which Germany was discussed and for the texts of the instruction and draft general agreement, see Tripartite Min’s 3–5, September 12 and 13, pages 1268, 1272, and 1279 and WFM T–5a, September 10, page 1197, and footnotes thereto. For the text of the High Commissioners’ report, see HICOM/P(51) 69 Final, August 9, page 1501.