Editorial Note
On September 13 the Foreign Ministers of the United States, the United Kingdom, and France approved the text of a set of Instructions for the Allied High Commission regarding the new relationship to be established with the Federal Republic. With respect to Berlin, the instructions stated:
“IV. C. Berlin
Although the three Powers will retain supreme authority with respect to questions relating to Berlin, and such authority will not be affected by the contractual agreements with the Federal Republic, the High Commissioners should, in consultation with the three Allied Commandants in Berlin, examine the conditions of Allied control in Berlin in the light of the arrangements contemplated with respect to the Federal Republic with a view to granting the Berlin governmental authorities the maximum possible authority consonant with such arrangements and with the conditions obtaining in Berlin. As recommended by the High Commission the suspension of Articles 22 and 144(2) of the Basic Law should be continued by legally effective methods.”
For the full text of the instructions, see WFM T–5a, page 1197 and footnotes thereto; for documentation on the meetings of the Foreign Ministers, see pages 1163 ff.