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Political and Legal Organizations: Council of Foreign Ministers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The fifth session of the Council of Foreign Ministers met in London from November 25 to December 15, 1947, to discuss the drafting of peace treaties for Germany and Austria. It met without an agreed agenda and adjourned without agreement. The first ten days were devoted to a discussion of the mechanisms necessary for the preparation of a German treaty, with two sessions devoted to the question of Austria; discussion in the last ten days centered around the problem of the related questions of immediate economic and political unity for Germany and the level of Germany's reparations payments. On most questions, press reports indicated that France, the United Kingdom and the United States were in general agreement, with the Soviet Union in opposition.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: IV. War and Transitional Organizations
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International Organization , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , February 1948 , pp. 153 - 156
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1948

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References

1 For previous summaries of the work of the Council of Foreign Ministers, see International Organization, I, p. 170–173, 374–376, 549–522. For summary of attitudes of the various countries on the Austrian peace apsettlement, see particularly 549–50.

2 New York Times, November 28 and 29, 1947.

3 Idid., December 2, 1947.

4 For text of Mershall statement, see New York Times, December 5, 1947.

5 Production by the end of 1947 was approximately three million tons of a permitted five and a half million.

6 Department of State Bulletin, XVIII, p. 1245Google Scholar.

7 New York Times, November 29, 1947.

8 Ibid., December 6, 1947.

9 Ibid., December 9, 1947.

10 For text of Mr. Marshall's remarks, see Department of State Bulletin, XVII, p. 1204Google Scholar.

11 Ibid., p. 1205.

12 Ibid., p. 1247.

13 Christian Science Monitor, December 15, 1947.