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CONTENTS
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Foreword--------------------------------------------------------      III
Bibliographic note -                                                  XI
Protocol on Zones of Occupation and Administration of the "Greater
Berlin" Area, September 12, 1944 -1----------                      
 I
Amending Agreement on Zones of Occupation and Administration of the
"Greater Berlin" Area, November 14, 1944-------------------------
   3
Agreement on Control Machinery in Germany, November 14, 1944            5
Protocol of the Proceedings of the Crimea (Yalta) Conference, February
11, 1945 [Extracts] -8_-------------------------             ---     8
Amending Agreement on Control Machinery in Germany, May 1, 1945        11
German Act of Surrender, May 8, 1945 -__-_-                      --    10
Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany and the Assumption of
Supreme Authority by the Allied Powers, June 5, 1945 -13
Allied Statement on Zones of Occupation in Germany, June 5, 1945       18
Allied Statement on Control Machinery in Germany, June 5, 1945-        18
Amending Agreement on Zones of Occupation and Administration of the
"Greater Berlin" Area, July 26, 1945                ------------
    21
Protocol of the Berlin (Potsdam) Conference, August 1, 1945 [Extracts]_ 
24
Stuttgart Address by Secretary of State Byrnes, September 6, 1946 -_   35
Report by Secretary of State Marshall on the Fourth Session of the Council
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of Foreign Ministers, April 28, 1947 -----------                     43
Report by Secretary of State Marshall on the Fifth Session of the Council
of Foreign Ministers, December 19, 1947                    ------    51
London Communiqu6 on Germany, by the United States, the United
Kingdom, France, and the Benelux Countries, March 6, 1948            56
Statement by the Department of State on the Malik-Jessup Talks, April
26, 1949 -57
Four-Power Communiqu6, on Agreement on Lifting the Berlin Blockade,
New York, May 4 1949                                     --    -     59
Statement of Principles for Berlin, by the Allied (Western) Kommandatura,
May 14, 1949 -60
Agreement on a Revised Internal Procedure for the Allied (Western)
Kommandatura, June 7, 1949 -----------                               62
Communiqu6 on the Sixth Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers,
June 20, 1949 [Extract] -----------------------                      63
Declaration by the German Federal Republic, on Free Elections, March 22,
1950                   -65
Statement by the Western Foreign Ministers, on Allied Rights in Berlin,
May 13, 1950 -66
Declaration by the Western Foreign Ministers, on Free Elections, May 14,
1950 -                                                               66
Note from the American Ambassador at Moscow to the Soviet Foreign
Minister, on the Remilitarization of East Germany, May 23, 1950 -__   67
Letter from the United States Commandant in Berlin to the Chairman of
the Soviet Control Commission, on Free Elections, May 25, 1950 -69
Letter from the American High Commissioner (McCloy) to the Chairman
of the Soviet Control Commission (Chuikov), on Free Elections, October
10, 1950 -   ---70
Draft Election Law of the Volkskammer of the German Democratic
Republic, January 9, 1952_--------------------------------------     71
Comments on the Draft Electoral Law of the GDR Volkskammer, by the
Bonn Ministry for All-German Affairs, January 11, 1952 [Extracts] - -  80
Draft Election Law of the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany,
February 6, 1952 -                                                   82
Note from the Soviet Foreign Ministry to the American Embassy, En-
closing Draft for a German Peace Treaty, March 10, 1952     - - _-_-_ 85
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