NEW CONSTITUTION OF GERMANY
WESTERN ALLIES MODIFY ATTITUDE GREATER FINANCIAL' INDEPENDENCE London, April 22. A memorandum, containing further modifications in the attitude oi : Great Britain, France and the United States to the future constitution of Western Germany, was delivered this afternoon to the President of the Parliamentary Council in Bonn.
The memorandum indicates that the Western Allies will consider sympathetically any provisions for giving both the Federal and the State Governments greater financial independence. So far the Western Powers have insisted that powers should be decentralised in Western Germany, and they have been supported in this by the conservative Christian Democrats. But the Social Democrats, under Dr Schumacher, have been holding out for more central authority and yesterday they submitted more counter-proposals, which were designed to increase iederal control of taxation. A meeting of the Parliamentary Council to consider Dr Schumacher's
new proposals was cancelled when it became known that the three Western Powers had delivered their new memorandum.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14959, 23 April 1949, Page 3
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