740.00119 EAC/7–445: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:30 p.m.]
6737. Comea 314. Final text agreement on additional requirements agreed today EAC preparatory to signature.
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[At the Tripartite Conference of Berlin, July 17 to August 2, 1945, agreement was reached on the political and economic principles of a coordinated Allied policy toward defeated Germany during the period of Allied control. For text of the agreement, see part III of the Report on the Tripartite Conference of Berlin, released to the press on August 2, 1945, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), volume II, pages 1501–1505, or Department of State Bulletin, August 5, 1945, page 154. See also part II of the Protocol of the Proceedings of the Berlin Conference, August 1, 1945, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), volume II, pages 1481–1485. For additional documentation regarding the principles to govern the treatment of Germany in the initial control period, see ibid., volume I, pages 435–506 and ibid., volume II, pages 750–830 and 1560–1564, and the Minutes and Other Records of Conference Proceedings, ibid., pages 31–606 passim.
An agreement between the Governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the Provisional Government of the French Republic on certain additional requirements to be imposed on Germany was signed ad referendum on July 25, 1945, at a meeting of the European Advisory Commission at London. For text of the agreement, together with the accompanying “Report by the European Advisory Commission to the Governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the Provisional Government of the French Republic” of the same date, see ibid., volume II, page 1008 ff. For documentation regarding the negotiation of the agreement on “Additional Requirements”, see ibid., volume I, pages 604–606, ibid., volume II, pages 138, 407, 1006–1023.]