851.01/8–2544: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
London, August
25, 1944—5 p.m.
[Received 11:45 p.m.]
[Received 11:45 p.m.]
6898. For Dunn from Phillips. I have learned from General Holmes’57 office that General Koenig has signed the United States-French civil affairs memoranda and that General Holmes has taken them to advanced headquarters France for signature by General Eisenhower at 2:30 p.m. today.58 The press release is to be issued at 5 p.m. London time. [Phillips.]
Winant
- Gen. Julius C. Holmes, member of General Eisenhower’s Staff for European Theater.↩
- For text of agreement with respect to civil affairs administration in France, see Department of State Treaties and Other International Acts Series No. 2313, or 2 UST 1714. The agreement was effected by exchange of letters, with memoranda, dated August 25, 1944, between Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commanding General of United States Army Forces, European Theater of Operations, and Gen. Joseph P. Koenig, Commander-in-Chief of the French Forces of the Interior. The memoranda related to (1) administrative and jurisdictional questions, (2) issuance and use of currency in France, (3) property in Continental France, (4) publicity arrangements, and (5) distribution of relief supplies for the civil population in Continental France.↩