Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, Germany and Austria, Volume II

740.00119 Control (Germany)/12–248: Telegram

The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Douglas) to the Secretary of State

confidential

London, December 2, 1948——10 p. m.

5082. Ruhrto 24. At fifteenth [fourteenth] plenary December 2¹ agreement reached on area of Ruhr substantially as urged USDel including OMGUS. Decided adopt area delineated on British map (enclosure nine despatch 2293, November 19²) plus area within Kreise Rees, Luedinghausen and Beckum covered by concessions now being worked. British undertook to obtain exact description this territory to he used in agreement. British and US firmly opposed including Kreise in entirety on political disadvantages which would ensue from unduly extended Ruhr area taking in non-coal areas.

Sent Department, repeated Berlin for information 622.

Douglas

1. A copy of the U.S. Delegation minutes of the 14th Meeting of the London Conference on the Ruhr, December 2, was transmitted to the Department of State as an enclosure to despatch 2418, December 8, from London, neither printed (740.00119 Control (Germany)/12–848).
2. The despatch under reference is not printed.