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...case of each of the Western zones," the NSA reports, "the zonal boards were formed in 1947 with the understanding that they were to be only a preliminary organization . . . to be dissolved when political conditions in Germany permitted the formation of an all-German student organization...
...Western delegates believed that Russia was pursuing the tactic of a maximum, impossible demand at the outset. Vishinsky wanted: 1) re-establishment of a four-power Control Council to exercise "supreme power" in Germany; 2) re-establishment of the Inter-Allied Kommandatura in Berlin; 3) creation of an "All-German State Council"; and 4) reestablishment of the All-Berlin Magistrat...
...position on the eve of the conference was approximately as follows: i) the Russians must give a clear guarantee of the West's rights in Germany; 2) the Russians must accept West Germany's democratic constitution as the basis for any all-German regime; 3) any political setup for Russia's Eastern Germany must be the result of free, Four-Power supervised elections; 4) the U.S. will not now agree to the withdrawal of occupation troops from Germany (although talk persisted that the U.S. might consider moving its troops to port cities and the French frontier...
...constitution repeatedly calls for the unity of all Germany. The drafters call it not a constitution but a "basic law"; it may be superseded by any permanent all-German "constitution adopted in a free decision by the German people...
...control of German industry and the resumption of trade between the eastern and western zones. The second is political: the future of Germany and the German people. At the present time, the western bloc is trying to work out answers to both problems. The West is in haphazard control over most of Germany's heavy industry and is trying to make up for the absence of east German products elsewhere. Finally although the western Germans have agreed faintheartedly to a constitution, there is little doubt that this arrangement satisfies only a few of them. Germans want an all-German government...