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Three months after Potsdam, eighteen nations assembled in Paris to devise ways and means of distributing equitably among themselves, their portion of Germany's surplus assets, external as well as internal.

The 18 nations included Albania, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Greece, India, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands, New Zeeland, Union of South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America and Yugoslavia.

One major accomplishment of the Paris conference which was held between November 9th and December 21st, 1945, was the creation of an InterAllied Reparation Agency (IARA) whose mission was to allocate reparations among the 18 participating governments and to assign of shares in German reparations within two categories.

One of these consisted of industrial equipment to be removed from Germany, together with merchant ships and inland water transport (category "B"). The second covered all other assets, gold, real estate, securities, including those in neutral and Allied as well as enemy territories (category "A").

Meanwhile the Econornic Directorate and its many committees and Subcommittees have been laboring and arguing for months perfecting the Reparations Plan, which set the level of Germany's standard of living and economy, and indicated to what extent reparations were available to Allied nations.

On 26 March 1946, the U. K., U. S., and U. S. S. R. together with France approved the Plan for Reparations and the Level of Post-War German Economy. This plan supplied the framework to put the Potsdam Agreement into action.

The twin tasks of disarming Germany industrially and developing a reparations program were begun in the U. S. Zone even before Potsdam. Ten weeks after Yalta, on 26 April 1945, the U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff issued Directive No. 1067 to the Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Forces of Occupation in Germany, directing him to establish whatever controls might be necessary to bring about the disarmament of Germany and to enforce whatever program of reparations might be decided on by the Allied Powers.

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