740.00119 Control (Germany)/12–645: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Caffery)
5705. Please inform Bidault that, as I recently indicated to Couve de Murville, this Government is determined to stand by the Agreement made at Potsdam concerning the setting up of centralized administrative agencies in Germany, with special regard to transportation and currency; and that if the agreement can be implemented in no other way we will, with great reluctance, agree to having the agencies in question operate in the Russian, British and American zones. We hope this will not be necessary.81
- In telegram 7070, December 8, from Paris, Ambassador Caffery reported that he had informed Mr. Bidault as instructed. “His only reply was to manifest much distress and to repeat what he and de Gaulle have so often said before that they are convinced that the setting up of centralized administrative agencies in Germany will inevitably lead to the eventual setting up of a Soviet dominated central government in Germany.” (740.00119 Control (Germany)/12–845)↩