762A.00/3–150

The Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Adenauer ) to the Chairman of the Allied High Commission for Germany ( François-Poncet )

I have received your letter AGSec(50)2340 of 23 October, 1950,1 and as requested I hereby confirm that the Federal Government will cooperate in the equitable apportionment of materials, products and services which are or may be in short supply or required for the common defense.

In the spirit of this cooperation the Federal Republic is in particular prepared

(a)
not to impose export restrictions on Western orders placed in the area of the Federal Republic for the above items, detrimental to the equitable apportionment of said items;
(b)
to take measures to prevent internal consumption of said items from unduly increasing at the expense of exports of said items and to lend support to industries producing the above items;
(c)
when the situation requires, to institute measures designed to ensure, at reasonable and non-discriminatory prices, supplies of the above items for Western defense requirements in an equitable proportion to the Federal Republic’s internal requirements for consumption and investment and with the appropriate degree of priority over the import demands of countries outside of Western defense effort.

I beg your Excellency to accept [etc.]

Adenauer