Office of the Historian

740.00119 European War/9–744: Telegram

Mr. Alexander C. Kirk, United States Political Adviser on the Staff of the Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theater (Wilson), to the Secretary of State

Caserta, September 7, 1944—noon.
[Received 9:40 p.m.]

312. My 295, September 4, midnight. General Wilson has now sent instructions to Lieutenant Colonel Barnes that there is no objection to his meeting Von Lanz but he is not to discuss terms of surrender. Purpose of such a meeting would be to arrange evacuation of a senior German officer to AFHQ to receive surrender terms.

Kirk