740.00119 EAC/3–2845: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:15 p.m.]
3212. Cornea 202. For Mr. Matthews. In studying Department’s 2292 and 2293 of March 24,16 I am uncertain regarding one point of procedure. Is the new revision of JCS 1067, referred to in Departments’ 2292 being prepared for circulation in the European Advisory Commission? If so, is it intended to circulate in the EAC both the March 23 memorandum, transmitted in Department’s 2293, and the new revision of JCS 1067? If both documents are to be circulated in the EAC, which one does the Department prefer to see adopted as a basis of negotiation?
Unless otherwise instructed by the Department, I shall state in my covering memorandum transmitting the March 23 memorandum to the EAC that this document is presented as a background document to set forth the US views on the initial post-defeat treatment of Germany, and to assist in clarifying the views of the respective delegations [Page 479] and that it will be followed shortly by a general draft directive, to be circulated as a proposed basis of negotiation. In other words, my memorandum will make it clear to the other delegations that the March 23 memorandum is circulated for their background, to be studied now in preparation for receiving the new revision of JCS 1067 as a basis of negotiation in case the Commission is willing to proceed to negotiate an over-all directive.
If the new revision of JCS 1067 is to be circulated shortly as a basis for negotiation, it will be confusing to place two similar US documents before the EAC, unless I make it clear which of them we circulate as a background statement of our policy views and which one we wish adopted for meticulous textual negotiation.
- Latter not printed; it contained the text of the memorandum regarding American policy for the treatment of Germany of March 23 (740.00119 Control (Germany)/3–2445).↩