Editorial Note
On January 30 the Intergovernmental Study Group on Germany (ISG) resumed its deliberations at London to consider restitution, reparations, foreign interests, claims on Germany, and the revision of the Prohibited and Limited Industries Agreement. At this fourth session the United States Representative was Julius C. Holmes, Minister at London and Jacques J. Reinstein, the Director of the Office of German Economic Affairs, was his alternate. The British Representative was Sir Donald St. Clair Gainer, Joint Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (German Section) and his alternate was Roger Stevens, Assistant Under-Secretary of State. The French Representative was René Massigli, Ambassador in the United Kingdom, and his alternate was Robert Gillet, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
[Page 1347]The work of the ISG during 1951 was divided among a plenary committee which met 5 times, a steering committee which met 64 times, a claims committee which met 42 times, a foreign interests committee which met 15 times, and an ad hoc committee which met as circumstances required. The most extensive set of records for the fourth session of the ISG is in the CFM files, lot M–88, boxes 196–204. It includes United States Delegation minutes of the various committee meetings, position papers, ISG documents and reports, sets of Tosig and Sigto telegrams from other posts dealing with questions discussed by the ISG, and miscellaneous papers and documents relating to the work of the ISG. The most important block of records in the Department of State’s decimal files dealing with the ISG is in 396.1–ISG. It includes telegraphic exchanges with the delegation and other interested posts and some of the papers and documents of the session.
The documentation which follows, because of the tremendous volume of materials generated by the ISG, presents only an outline of the discussions in London, concentrating predominantly on the revision of the Prohibited and Limited Industries Agreement.