740.00119 EAC/7–2644
The Chairman of the European Advisory Commission (Winant) to the Foreign Ministers of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Yugoslavia, and to the Representatives in London of Greece and the French Committee of National Liberation 42
Under instructions received from the Governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the European Advisory Commission has been entrusted with the task of making recommendations to the three Governments on the terms of surrender to be imposed upon Germany and the machinery required to ensure the fulfilment of those terms.
The Commission has reached a point in its studies at which it would welcome an expression of the views of the European Allied Governments* on any of these matters which those Governments* would wish to convey to the Commission.
I am therefore desired by the Commission to say that if the Government/French Committee of National Liberation should wish to lay before the Commission any statement of their views on any of the problems referred to above or any exposition of their special interests in any of these matters, the Commission would be glad to receive such statements in writing so that it could take them into account in its further deliberations.
I would emphasize that, since the work of the Commission in its present phase has important military aspects, the proceedings of the Commission are secret, and that it is essential that there should be no public disclosure either of the content of the communications which may be addressed to the Commission by the Governments* concerned, or even of the fact that such communications have been made at all. The Commission therefore counts on the Governments* concerned to take the necessary security precautions to this end.
- Copy transmitted to the Department by Special Courier in despatch 17092, July 26, 1944, from London; received July 28.↩
- Note: In the letter addressed to the Representative of the French Committee of National Liberation the words “or authorities” have been inserted in the text after “Governments”. [Footnote in the original.]↩
- Note: In the letter addressed to the Representative of the French Committee of National Liberation the words “or authorities” have been inserted in the text after “Governments”. [Footnote in the original.]↩
- Note: In the letter addressed to the Representative of the French Committee of National Liberation the words “or authorities” have been inserted in the text after “Governments”. [Footnote in the original.]↩
- Note: In the letter addressed to the Representative of the French Committee of National Liberation the words “or authorities” have been inserted in the text after “Governments”. [Footnote in the original.]↩