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"combined ownership", provided that "combined ownership" shall take the form of holding companies with separate subsidiaries, as proposed by the German Trade Unions, rather than completely integrated coal and steel companies as desired by the Americans.

Accept any agreernent reached between the Americans,

French and Germans on the dissolution of the German coal sales organisation.

Foreign Office, S, W.1.,

19TH MARCH, 1951.

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