 | many,
141204. The gravity of the coal crisis was confirmed by the American Potter-Hyndley Mission, sent to Europe in the spring. Germany must produce 25 million tons of coal between June 1945 and April 1946, the Mission concluded, or "there will occur . . . a coal famine of such severity as to destroy all semblance of law and order, and thus delay any chance of reasonable stability" (June 7, 1945,
FRUS, Conference of Berlin,
1: 620).
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| 21. July 2, 1945, AN, F60, box 900.
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| 22.
Note au sujet du désarmement économique et financier de I'Allemagne,
Office of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, July 7, 1945, AN, F6, box 900.
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| 23. Royal Institute of International Affairs,
Documents,
"Report on the Tripartite Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 17 July-2 August, 1945," 4050.
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| 24. "French Reaction to Decisions of the Berlin Conference," Appendix B,
FRUS, The Conference of Berlin, 1945,
2: 154366.
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| 25. Memorandum of Conversation, Byrnes and Bidault, August 23, 1945,
FRUS, Conference of Berlin, 1945,
2. 155764.
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| 26. French text of September 14, 1945, memorandum submitted to the London CFM, in Royal Institute of International Affairs,
Documents,
6668. For a detailed discussion of the London Conference by a leading French official, see Bérard,
Un ambassadeur se souvient,
3259.
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| 27. Murphy (political adviser in Germany), telegrams to State, September 23, 1945,
FRUS, 1945,,
3: 87173; September 28, 1945, ibid., 84142; October 20, 1945, ibid., 84647; Caffery to State, November 3, 1945, ibid., 89091.
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| 28. "Report on the Franco-American Conversations," November 20, 1945,
FRUS, 1945,
3: 896906. See also the documentation of these visits in Bidault Papers, AN, 45 7 AP, box 61.
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| 29. State to Caffery, November 21, 1945,
FRUS, 1945,
3: 908; Caffery to State, November 28, 1945, ibid., 91112.
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| 30.
Aide-mémoire françcais concernant le futur regime économique et financier de la Ruhr,
October 20, 1945, initialed by Alphand, Bidault Papers, AN, 457 AP, box 60.
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| 31. Telegram to Bidault, September 29, 1945, de Gaulle,
Lettres, notes et camets, mai 1945-juin 1951,
8990; letter to Koenig, October 29, 1945, ibid., 1068; telegram to Koenig, November 30, 1945, ibid., 12930; marginalia in letter to Bidault, December 4, 1945, ibid., 132.
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