Editorial Note
On March 22, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany released to the press the text of a declaration which noted with satisfaction McCloy’s February 28 proposal for all-German elections and which listed the procedures it deemed necessary for the election of a National Assembly whose task would be the drafting of a constitution for Germany. For the text of this declaration, see Documents on German Unity (Frankfort, Office of the United States High Commissioner for Germany, 1951), page 148, or Margaret Carlyle, ed., Documents on International Affairs, 1949–1950 (London, Oxford University Press, 1953), pages 161–162.
On the same day, at the Ambassadors meeting in Rome, McCloy reviewed the whole German situation with the United States Ambassadors in Western Europe and with George W. Perkins, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. For a summary record of his statement, see volume III, page 810.