Editorial Note

On May 29 the German Federal Government transmitted to the Allied High Commission for Germany a note reviewing the history of the Saar since the end of World War II and stating that the Saar Government had “created for themselves the means to suppress any political opinion they do not like.” The Federal Government requested that the Governments represented in the Allied High Commission “take suitable steps to restore in the Saar area unrestricted freedom to the population to express its opinion and to make up its mind on those questions which are to be settled definitively in the peace treaty.”

For the text of a translation of this note, see Folliot, Documents on International Affairs, 1951, pages 244–247.