Editorial Note
No official memorandum regarding this conversation has been found. Morgenthau’s diary entry for September 15 reads as follows:
“While I was waiting for the President between five and six, I was sitting there talking with Grace Tully and Admiral Leahy joined us. He said that they1 had only settled that afternoon what part of Germany the English would go into, and what part the U.S.A. should go into.2 In the morning when I arrived at twelve,3 the President was sitting alone in his room with three different colored pencils and a [Page 370] map of Europe, and he then and there sketched out where he wanted us to go and where he wanted the English to go,4 and by that I mean our Armies. He had before him a map of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, which he said was terrible. According to Admiral Leahy, this afternoon the President showed Churchill his map, and got what he wanted. When I let Leahy read the memorandum on the Ruhr and the Saar,5 he was very happy because he said that the English were going to occupy the Ruhr and the Saar and they would have to carry this thing out.” (Morgenthau Presidential Diary, vol. VI)
For the action of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Combined Chiefs of Staff on September 16, 1944, to implement the Roosevelt-Churchill decision on the zones of occupation in Germany, see post, pp. 373, 375.
- i.e., Roosevelt and Churchill.↩
- See ante, p. 365.↩
- See ante, p. 360.↩
- If Morgenthau was referring to a map on which Roosevelt drew the zones of occupation which he and Churchill agreed upon during the afternoon of September 15 (see ante, p. 365), no map fitting this description has been found. It seems probable, however, that Morgenthau saw the map printed facing p. 392, on which Roosevelt drew lines in red, blue, and green pencil to show a possible subdivision of Germany after the peace.↩
- Post, p. 466.↩