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740.00119 Control (Germany)/10–1045: Telegram

The United States Political Adviser for Germany (Murphy) to the Secretary of State

Berlin, October 10, 1945—7 p.m.
[Received October 10—2:30 p.m.]

739. Refer my telegram 45, October 9, 8 p.m.,42 relative to repatriation of German nationals from Czecho, repeated to Dept as No. 727.

For your confidential information Displaced Persons Directorate, in meeting October 9, agreed to recommend to Coordinating Committee that latter Committee authorize Czech delegation to proceed to Berlin to discuss repatriation of German refugees from Czechoslovakia. It was provided, however, that members of this delegation should be part of Military Mission43 ultimately to be accredited to Allied Control Authority and not a separate commission. US member of Directorate argued for separate commission but was constrained to accept other view which was advanced by Soviet and concurred in [Page 1289] by British and French. It was understood that ACA may call forward members of Czech Military Mission competent to discuss refugee transfers in advance of remainder of Mission.

Sent to Praha as 46, repeated to Dept as 739.

Murphy
  1. See last paragraph of the telegram supra.↩
  2. The Coordinating Committee had approved a report proposing that applications to accredit missions to the Allied Control Council for Germany be accepted from 16 countries, including Czechoslovakia. For documentation on the negotiations in the European Advisory Commission and the Allied Control Authority regarding the representation in Germany of foreign countries, see vol. iii, pp. 1084 ff., especially telegram 721, October 9, 9 a.m., from the United States Political Adviser for Germany, p. 1097.↩