MEETING OF CDU LEADERS IN KOBLENZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000830007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 11, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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I. On 24 September 1947 a conference occurred between CDU leaders of
Land Rheinland-Pfalz and CDU visitors Jakob Kaiser, Lemmer, and
Adenauor0 The meeting was reported in the press, but its causes
and procedure were not made publics It was a closed session.
The meeting was originally schedu2ed to include only Adenauer and
Minister-President of Rheinland-Pfalz Altmaier, to induce Altmaier
to make a declaration favoring the Marshall Plan at the Landtag
session of 30 September 1947. Altmaier informed Commandant Foucry,
the political adviser to Governor de Boislambert of Rheinland-
Pfalz, that he intended to discuss the Marshall Plan at that
session. Upon orders from the office of Administrator-General
Laffon in Baden-Baden, Fouc-?y advised Altmaier to omit mention of
the Marshall Plan. Adenauer wished to persuade Altmaier to dis-
regard this advice, and Kaiser and Lemmer attended the meeting in
order to counteract his efforts.
During the meeting, which was somewhat stormy, Adenauer almost
succeeded, contending that the Marshall Plan would be carried any-
how. Kaiser violently reproached him for voluntarily abandoning
the Russian Zone. A compromise suggested by Lemmer was finally
adopted: to prepare a declaration favoring the Marshall Plan but
to publish it only after the negative results of the London
Conference of Foreign Ministers became clear.
4. Kaiser and Lemmer criticized Administrator General Laffon's Order
No. 219, which granted some authority on export matters to French
Zone Lands, as the path to economic separatism. Kaiser was
particularly bitter over the "casting off of the .'?astern Zone."
5. Altmaier informed his party leaders that he had no great difficulty
mane ? SPD in Rheinland-Pfalz, citing the railroad agreement
for separate Land control of the Reichsbahn in the French Zone
which was signed by SPD and trade union representatives. He
described it as "lulling the Social Democratic nostalgia for
economic centralism."
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