28. Mr. Vaneasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what opinion the Bizonal Economic Council at Frankfurt has expressed on the differing proposals 926 for expropriation of agricultural land in the British and U.S.A. zones.
Mr. McNeilOn 28th April, 1948, the subject of agrarian reform was debated in the Economic Council. It was recognised that the matter was one for each State to decide, but a resolution was passed that the Director for Food, Agriculture and Forestry should be instructed to submit recommendations to the Economic Council as to how the implementation of agrarian reform in general could best be co-ordinated between the Laender Departments and the Department for Food, Agriculture and Forestry in Frankfurt. These recommendations have not yet been submitted.