position 'of the German people or to fulfil the tasks laid
down in our joint 'decisions at Yalta and Potsdam with the
aim of creating a democratic and peaceable Germany.
It has to be recognized that Germany's economic unity
cannot be ensured without' the active participation of the
German people themselves. This means that it is necessary
to create all-German economic bodies, in which Germany's
democratic forces can display their initiative and organi-
zational capacity. It is necessary to create all-German ad-
ministrative departments for industry, finance, trade, agri-
culture, food, transport and communications, as envisaged
in the decisions of the Potsdam conference and in sub- •
sequent decisions.
There must be no delay in creating these all-German
departments, which will provide the Germans with an op-
portunity for active participation in the work of economic
recovery in all zones of Germany. At the same time, this
would be an important step forward towards solving the
problem of the creation of an all-German government.