Contains transcripts of certain Senate Foreign Relations Committee executive session hearings. Transcribed hearings are: a. Revision and strengthening of the U.

Conferences concerning the status of West Germany. June 3, 1948. p. 67-84. Includes discussion of Western European control and allocation of Ruhr area resources

This compelling history brings to life the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its long-standing position of political and military isolatio