Inter-Allied Reparation Agency: Papers of UK Delegation

T 294

1945-1958

Subject files generated by the UK delegation to the Agency during the period 1946-1958. The files illustrate the way in which the UK delegation worked,and contain working papers of the Delegation Committee, papers of the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency, and papers relating to reparations, German external assets, and the restitution of monetary gold.

Original reference order with the prefix RA.

The official records of the The Inter-Allied Reparation Agency are held in the Archives Nationales (French National Archives).

Public Record(s)

English

15 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

The Inter-Allied Reparation Agency (IARA) was set up in 1946 to deal with the question of entitlement to reparation from Germany after the Second World War. It consisted of delegates from 18 countries which were entitled to some measure of reparation from Germany after the War. The countries involved were:

The Paris Conference on Reparation met from 9 November to 21 December 1945 and the Inter-Allied Reparation Agency was set up in accordance with a recommendation of the Conference that the governments represented at the Conference should sign an agreement on reparation from Germany, and on the restitution of monetary gold. The terms were set out in the Final Act of the Paris Conference on Reparation (Cmnd 6721, 1946). The agreement was signed and the Agency was set up in Brussels in 1946. A Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold was established by the governments of the USA, UK and France (see Part III, paragraph F of the final Act of the Paris Conference).

A UK delegation to the Agency was set up in Brussels. Sir Ronald Wingate was appointed as UK delegate in 1947; after his resignation in October 1958 his responsibilities were assumed by the Commercial Counsellor of the British Embassy in Brussels.

The Agency issued its final report issued in September 1961.