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 2824 Views on Basic Law. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [63 STAT. It was foreseen that the French temporarily domiciled in Kehl might remain during a four-year period required for the preparation of additional housing in Strasbourg. Around one-third of the French inhabitants will be able to leave Kehl within several months, and the remainder progressively thereafter as housing becomes available. The final decision with respect to the Kehl port zone will be made in the peace settlement. If the port authority develops harmoniously, the US and UK will be willing at the time of the peace settlement to bring an attitude of good will toward the establishment of a permanent joint authority. MESSAGE TO THE MILITARY GOVERNORS FROM THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE US, UK AND FRANCE To the Military Governors: For your guidance the Foreign Ministers of the US, UK and France transmit their views on the Basic Law. It is left to the Military Governors to determine the time they may consider it appropriate to communicate these views to the Parliamentary Council, but the Foreign Ministers wish that they be transmitted before opinion in the Parliamentary Council has crystallized, in order that the views given below may be reflected in the Basic Law. "(a) The Foreign Ministers are not able to agree at this time that Berlin should be included as a Land in the initial organization of the German Federal Republic. "(b) In the financial field any provisions put forward by the Parlia- mentary Council in the direction of securing financial inde- pendence and adequate strength for both the Sender and Federal Governments in operating in their respective fields will receive sympathetic consideration. "(c) On the question of Article 36 (Article 95 (c)) they will also give sympathetic consideration to any formula which (i) eliminates from the federal powers those matters definitely excluded by the London agreement. (ii) assures to the lender sufficient powers to enable them to be independent and vigorous governmental bodies. (iii) assures to the Federal Government sufficient powers in the important fields of government to enable them to deal effectively with those fields in which the interests of more than one Land are substantially and necessarily involved. "(d) Finally, the Foreign Ministers request that the Military Gov- ernors indicate to the Parliamentary Council, at an appro- priate time, that they are ready to contemplate a suggestion for a right of the Federal State to supplement, from its own revenues, appropriations made by the Laender from revenues from their own taxes levied and collected by them, by grants for education, health and welfare purposes, subject in each case to specific approval of the Bundesrat."

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