Western Germany: Major developments concerning western Germany during the fall of 1949 centered around the problems of dismantling, German industrial production, and the international status of the German Federal Republic. The foreign ministers of France, the United Kingdom and the United States, meeting in Paris on November 10 and 11, turned the problem over to the Allied High Commission; French agreement to proposals for liquidation of the dismantling program was obtained after long discussion and with the provision that German steel production should not increase above the current limit of 11,500,000 tons annually. The ministers “reaffirmed their policy as expressed in the occupation statute of giving to the Federal Republic a wide area of free determination in the conduct of German affairs,” the area of autonomy to grow as the Republic “gave confidence that it was proceeding toward the establishment of a free democratic and peaceful Germany.” The integration of the German people into the European community was also to be supported.