Editorial Note

On March 9 the steering committee completed an agreed draft report to the Governments on prohibited and limited industries which consisted of a communication to the Allied High Commission for Germany including the text of an agreement on industrial controls and instructions for its administration. The Department of State approved the draft report on March 13 and at a plenary meeting on March 16 the heads of the United States, British, and French Delegations approved the report for their Governments. On the same day the heads of the Delegations briefed representatives from the Benelux countries on the content of the agreement and instructed the Chairman of the ISG to send-a letter to the Chairman of the NATO Council of Deputies informing him of the substance of the agreement. The agreed report was then transmitted to the High Commissioners for Germany, [Page 1381] who signed it on April 3 at Bonn–Petersberg and delivered a copy to Chancellor Adenauer.

The texts of the Agreement Concerning Industrial Controls, the covering letter to Chancellor Adenauer concerning the agreement, the instructions to the Allied High Commission concerning its administration, the letter to the Chairman of the NATO Council of Deputies, and the letter from the head of the United States Delegation to the British and French Delegations follow. Further documentation relating to these developments is in file 396.1–ISG.