Commissioned in February 1946, the Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas was directly responsible to the Secretary of State for the coordination of State Department policy on all occupation matters. The Assistant Secretary was the State Department representative on the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee and later was named permanent committee chairman. The Assistant Secretary submitted matters of concern to the appropriate bureaus for action and was the means by which all policy matters relating to occupied areas were presented to agencies outside the Department.
The major concerns of the Assistant Secretary were the occupation and governments of the four occupied countries (Germany, Austria, Japan, Korea), issues such as disarmament and security, economic and financial questions, and, with the aid of an Advisor on Refugees and Displaced Persons, relief and relocation of the victims of the war.
Box # File Title
2 Reparations location: 250/46/27/04
5 230.365 Reparations, economy, finance location: 250/46/27/05
6 334 German Assets, Reparations Vol. 1
386.3 Reparations, German , Vol. 3 location: 250/46/27/05
7 451.1 Restitution: Austria to Italy location: 250/46/27/05
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