Editorial Note

On September 5, Massigli, Gainer, and Holmes, who was acting for Douglas, signed the report of the Intergovernmental Study on Germany for submission to the Foreign Ministers. Designated IGG(50) 127 Final, the report comprised six items concerning the revision of the occupation statute, the status of the Federal Republic and the treaties of the former German Reich, claims, termination of the state of war; Articles 18 and 19 of the Ruhr Agreement, and the definition of German cooperation required to warrant the relinquishment of controls. For the full text of the report, see volume III, page 1248.