Memorandum from George W.F. Hallgarten to unknown recipient, July 23, 1947 - page 1

Memoranda* on Research as Requested by Telecon .VD-16, 23 July 1947 on Krupp The undersigned was assigned the task to "find out if possible the regulations in respect to Krupp issued by the Allied Control Commission after norld War I and also information concerning Krupp circumvention of Versailles Treaty specifically Article 168 Part V Section 1 Chapter I." The preliminary findings are as follows* Article 168 of the Versailles Treaty reads as follows: The manufacture of arms, munitions, or any war material, shall only be carried out in factories or works the loca¬ tion of which shall be communicated to and approved by the Governments of the Frineipal Allied end Associated Fowers, and the number of which they retain the right to restrict. Within three months from the coming in force of the present Treaty, all other establiehments for the manufact¬ ure, preparation, storage or design of arms, munitions, or any war material whatever, shall be closed down. The same applies to all arsenals except those used as depots for the authorized stocks of munitions. Within the same period the personnel of these arsenals will be dismissed. Careful search in the Library of Congress, in cooperation with several members of the Library reference staff, has failed to produce any traces of the directives in question. Consultation of the Aar Department Lib¬ rary has likewise produoed no results, oome pertinent material in the Library of the Carnegie Kndowme t for International leace will be consulted. A copy of directives for the destruction of war material, issued by the nllies in 1919 - shortly after the signing of the Versailles Treaty - ie reported to be at the library of the Army gar College. Though these dir¬ ectives appear to have beer, preliminary and do not seem to apply to the Krupp case as such, they will be studied and photostatic copies will be made, if advisable, л wire has been sent to the Hoover ftar Library at Falo Alto, Califcwda, requesting help in the search for the directives on Krupp. The undersigned and the members of the Library of Congress reference staff believe that the almost complete lack of material issued by the Interallied Military Commission for the bcntrol of Germany in the 1920's icttnat: ГЖХТШГГГН* is due to tne fact tnat the United Jtates did not ratH_ ^ . I .s Vs receive /any oi tne docu -e..i3 :or implementing it. tuua, it might be advisable to consult the follow! agencies: ng 1. Library of the "Mussee de la Guerre Vondiale" at VINCSNNSb, near Paris, Prance. 2. Library of the Royal Institute for International Affairs ■ Chatham louse, London. rumnt f If (C !■ w :