Office of the Historian

740.00119 EW/3–3145: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)17

Washington, March 31, 1945—4 p.m.

2486. It is desired that the statement of policy toward Germany, transmitted in Department’s 2293,18 should be negotiated as a protocol of agreement between the four governments participating in the EAC as a matter of the highest priority. In view of the present course of the war, we believe that early agreement on these principles would be of great utility and request you to propose to your colleagues its most urgent consideration.

The individual draft directives already approved by the United States Government and others which you will receive should also be negotiated provided that by so doing there is no delay involved in the negotiation of the President’s statement.

With reference to Cornea 202, revision of JCS 1067 is intended primarily for United States Commanding General in Germany to guide him in his zone and in the deliberations of the Control Council. It has not been decided yet whether revision of JCS 1067 will be introduced into EAC for negotiation or for background information.

Grew
  1. Marginal handwritten note on file copy reads: “Approved hy representatives of War, Navy, Treasury and FEA at meeting of subcommittee on Germany. March 30. J[ames] W R[iddleberger].”↩
  2. Not printed; see footnote 16, p. 478.↩