740.00119 EW/12–1245: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Caffery)
5867. For Angell No. 97. You are authorized to sign final act as drafted Embstel 7136, Dec 12, and revised as follows:
“The Conference on Reparation, which has met in Paris from blank to blank, recommends that the Governments represented at the Conference conclude the agreement on reparation from Germany, on the establishment of an inter-allied reparation agency, and on the restitution of monetary gold, which is set forth below, and that such agreement, drawn up as an instrument separate from this Final Act, be signed in Paris as soon as possible. The recommended agreement is as follows:
‘The Governments of blank, in order to implement the protocol on German reparation between the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United States of America, signed at Potsdam on August 1, 1945, in order to obtain an equitable division among themselves of the total assets available to them as reparation from Germany (hereinafter referred to as German reparation), and to settle an equitable procedure for the restitution of monetary gold, in order to establish an interallied reparation, have agreed as follows:
(Here will be incorporated the main body of the agreement, including the Articles constituting the IARA charter.)
Article blank. This Agreement, which shall be open for signature on behalf of any Government represented at the Conference on Reparation which was held in Paris from blank to blank, shall come into force as soon as it has been signed on behalf of Governments collectively entitled to not less than fifty percent of the aggregate of shares in category A (all forms of reparation other than plant removals and ships) of German reparation.
Article blank. The signature on behalf of ‘each contracting Government shall, [Page 1469] for the purposes of the present agreement, be deemed to cover its colonies, overseas territories, and territories under its protection or sovereignty or mandate.
In witness whereof, the undersigned, duly authorized by their respective Governments, have signed the present agreement in the English and French languages, the two texts being equally authentic, in a single original, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the French Republic, certified copies thereof being furnished by that Government to all the Governments concerned.
Done at Paris this blank day of blank, year.’
In witness whereof, the undersigned, duly authorized by their respective Governments, have signed the present Final Act of the Conference on Separation in the English and French languages, the two texts being equally authentic, in a single original, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the French Republic, certified copies thereof being furnished by that Government to all the Governments represented at that Conference.
Done at Paris this blank day of blank, 1945.”
Ambassador’s signature intergovernmental agreement will be subject of further instructions.