 Complete the following phrase:  The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office noted in December 1947 that an unusual feature of this part of the work of the MSC is that agreement appears to have been brought, by normal standards of United Nations progress, unusually close. The prospect of success is however, more apparent than real. All these discussions presuppose agreement on the General Principles and such agreement remains remote. By August 1948, after conflicts such as the Berlin Blockade and 