Office of the Historian

740.00116 European War/10–1044

Memorandum by Mr. E. Tomlin Bailey of the Special War Problems Division

[Washington,] October 10, 1944.

Mr. Gunningham43 telephoned to say that he had been informed by the Foreign Office that they did not think it necessary that the British and American protests concerning the German mistreatment of parachutists had to be identical. The Foreign Office is forwarding copies of the correspondence and statements made during the discussions with Germany after the fall of Crete and Mr. Gunningham promised to send copies of these documents to the Department for its information as well as a copy of the British note which is shortly to be sent.44

  1. H. W. Gunningham, Second Secretary of the British Embassy at Washington.↩
  2. Mr. Gunningham transmitted copies of the 1940 correspondence in his note of October 20, 1944; none printed.↩