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 63 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-WESTERN ZONES IN GERMANY-APR. 8,1949 MESSAGE TO THE BONN PARLIAMENTARY COUNCIL FROM THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE US, UK AND FRANCE To the Military Governors: The Foreign Ministers of the US, UK and France request you to transmit to the Parliamentary Council at Bonn the following message on their behalf: "The Foreign Ministers have considered the problem of a Federal Polioy deions. German Republic in all its aspects in Washington and have come to a number of important decisions of policy in regard thereto. They have decided that, in general, the German authorities shall be at liberty to take administrative and legislative action, and that such action will have validity if not vetoed by Allied authorities. There will be certain limited fields in which the Allies will reserve the right to take direct action themselves and which are set out in the Occupation Statute, a copy of which is attached hereto. A nt s, p. 2819. "With the establishment of the German Federal Republic, Mili- tary Government as such will terminate and the functions of the Allied Authorities will be divided-control functions being exercised by a High Commissioner and Military functions by a Commander- in-Chief. The three High Commissioners together will constitute an Allied High Commission, and it is the aim of the three govern- ments to restrict to a minimum the size of the supervisory staffs attached to their respective High Commissioners. "The Foreign Ministers further affirm that it is a major objective of the three Allied Governments to encourage and facilitate the closest integration on a mutually beneficial basis of the German people under a democratic Federal State within the framework of a European association. "Nevertheless, before the far-reaching developments which they contemplate can be put in hand, it is essential that an agreement should be reached by the Parliamentary Council upon a Basic Law for the German Federal Republic." 2825

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