Editorial Note
From November 11 to December 24, 1948, representatives from the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg met in London for talks devoted to the preparation of a draft charter on the international control of the Ruhr. Twenty-five formal meetings were held at the British Foreign Office and twenty-four formal, numbered conference documents were considered. The documents in this section include U.S. Delegation telegraphic reports on the most important formal and informal sessions [Page 473] of the Conference—hereafter referred to as the London Conference on the Ruhr. This section also includes the most important documents, generated or considered by the Conference. In addition there have been included papers regarding instructions to and reports from the U.S. Delegation to the Conference together with supplementary documentation related to the Conference. No official record of meetings or Conference decisions was maintained, but the U.S. Delegation prepared its own minutes of the formal meetings. The telegraphic reports on Conference meetings bear annotations indicating the Department file location of the appropriate U.S. Delegation minutes. A complete set of the U.S. Delegation minutes together with a complete set of the formal numbered documents is included in CFM Files, Lot M–88, Box 126. The list of delegations set forth below is derived from papers in the files of the Department of State. The list is not complete, but it includes the principal participants at Conference sessions.
List of Delegations to the London Conference on the Ruhr
United Kingdom
Representative (and permanent Conference Chairman)
Roger B. Stevens, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office
Advisers
John W. Nicholls, Head, German Commercial Relations and Industry Department, Foreign Office
James A. M. Marjoribanks, Assistant Head, German Political Department, Foreign Office
Dermot F. MacDermot, Foreign Office
Miss E. Ackroyd, Steel Expert, Ministry of Supply
Francis B. Richards, German Political Department, Foreign Office
Miss A. D. Stevens, Economist, Board of Trade
E. J. Meadon, Coal Expert, Ministry of Trade and Power
E. T. Lewis, German Commercial Relations and Industry Department, Foreign Office
United States
Representative
Lewis W. Douglas, Ambassador in the United Kingdom
Alternate Representative
Wayne G. Jackson, Special Assistant to the Director, Office of European Affairs, Department of State
Advisers
Benjamin H. Brown, Jr., Office of the Legal Adviser, Department, of State
[Page 474]Daniel F. Margolies, Acting Chief, Central European Branch, Division of Investment and Economic Development, Department of State
Forrest G. Hannaman, Special Assistant for Policy Coordination, OMGUS
William C. Trimble, First Secretary, Embassy in the United Kingdom
Fritz Oppenheimer, Consultant, Department of State
Saul Nelson, Economic Cooperation Administration
France
Representative
Hervé Alphand, Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Advisers
André Gros, Legal Adviser, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Francois Valery, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Paul Leroy Beaulieu, Economic and Financial Adviser, French High Command in Germany
Louis de Guiringaud, First Secretary, Embassy in the United Kingdom
Georges Perrineau, Director of Mines, Ministry of Industry and Commerce
Georges Louis Parisot, Adviser, Ministry of Industry and Commerce
M. Burau (or Bureau), Director, Office of Iron Production, Ministry of Industry and Commerce
Belgium
Representative
Vicomte Alain Obert de Thieusies, Ambassador in the United Kingdom
Alternate Representatives
Jean Salmon, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Amaury Holvoet, First Secretary, Embassy in the United Kingdom
Advisers
Olivier Gerard, Acting Deputy Director General for External Trade
Prince Werner de Merode, Second Secretary, Embassy in the United Kingdom
Netherlands
Representative
Joseph M. A. H. Luns, First Secretary, Embassy in the United Kingdom
[Page 475]Adviser
J.G. deVooys, Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Luxembourg
Representative
André Clasen, Minister in the United Kingdom
Alternate Representative
Georges Heisbourg, Secretary, Legation in the United Kingdom