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I. MEETINGS OF THE DEPUTIES OF THE COUNCIL OF
  FOREIGN MINISTERS, LONDON, JANUARY 14-
  FEBRUARY 25, 1947
          A. MEETINGS OF THE DEPUTIES FOR GERMANY
C.F.M. Files: Lot M-88: Box 2079: CFM Documents
The Secretary General of the Council of Foreign Ministers (Kelchner)
                 to Various Allied Governments '
SECRET                            [NEW YORK, December 31, 1946.]
  The Council of Foreign Ministers at its recent meeting in New York
decided to hold its next meeting at Moscow on March 10, 1947, for
the consideration of German and Austrian problems and to appoint
Deputies for Germany and for Austria who are to start work in
London on January 14.
  2. The Council is anxious that the Governments of Allied neighbor-
ing States and of other Allied States which participated with their
armed forces in the common struggle against Germany should have
ample opportunity to express their views on the settlement of German
problems which are of interest to them.
  3. The Council accordingly hereby invites the ... Government to
communicate in writing at its early convenience to the Deputies for
Germany its views on those aspects of the German problem which are
of interest to it.
  4. The Deputies for Germany will study these expressions of view
  and submit them, with a report to the Council of Foreign Ministers
at its next meeting.
   5. If the  . . Government wishes also to present views on the
 Austrian problem it is requested that such views should be communi-
 cated in writing to the Deputies for Austria whose instructions are
 to proceed with the preparation of a Treaty recognizing the independ-
 ence of Austria and to submit proposals on this subject at the next
 meeting of the Council.
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  1The source text, with the blank spaces indicated here, was circulated
to the
  Council of Foreign Ministers by the Secretary General of the Council of
Foreign
  Ministers as document CFM (46) (NY)80, December 31, 1946, under cover of
the
  following communication:
  "Letter despatched on December 31 by the Secretary General of the
Council
  of Foreign Ministers to the Governments of Australia, Belgium, Brazil,
Byelo-
  Russia, Canada, China, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Greece, India, Luxembourg,
  Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Ukraine, and
  Yugoslavia."
  This invitation was prepared in pursuance of the decision of the Council
of For-
  eign Ministers recorded in Part IV of document CF3M (46) (NY)74, December
12,
  1946, Foreign Relations, 1946, vol. ii, p. 1557.
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