§ Mr. Nuttingasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will state His Majesty's Government's attitude towards President Truman's recent declaration in favour of modifying the Potsdam decisions concerning machinery for the quadripartite administration of Germany.
§ Mr. BevinI have read reports of the President's statement to which the hon. Member refers, and though they do not all agree, I understand the most accurate version is that which records the President as saying that the United States Government might, after examining certain reports which it had received, make proposals to the interested Governments 2487W which would lead to some changes in the Potsdam Agreement. No such proposals have yet been made to His Majesty's Government; but if they are made they will of course receive the most careful and sympathetic consideration.
I would like to take this opportunity of pointing out that the Agreement on Control Machinery in Germany was completed some time before the Potsdam Conference; and that the French Government is a party to it as well as the three Governments represented at that Conference.