Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945, Volume I

J. C. S. Files: Telegram

No. 117
The Commanding General, United States Military Mission in the Soviet Union (Deane) to the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force (Eisenhower)

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Moscow, 3 July 1945.

To SHAEF Main for Eisenhower info AGWar for Marshall from Deane top secret MX 24883. Please pass following message to Colonel D E Lowry, JCS Representative who is in Berlin.

Composition of party attending Berlin conference is as follows:

• Ambassador William Averell Harriman,
• Ambassador Edwin William Pauley,
• Mr Edward Page Embassy First Secretary,
• Minister Isador Lubin,
• Mr H Marshall, Counsel for Reparations Commission,
• Mr J Parten, Chief of Staff aide of Reparations Commission, and two others from Reparations Commission who have not yet been designated.¹

Military personnel will be:

• Major General J R Deane,
• Rear Admiral H L Maples,
• Brigadier General William L Ritchie,
• Lt Chase, USNR,
• Major Taylor and
• Lt Meiklejohn, USNR.

Lt Chase is an excellent Russian interpreter. …

1. According to the Pauley–Lubin Report (see vol. ii, pp. 940–941), Pauley was accompanied to Babelsberg by Lubin, Parten, Marshall, and Luther Gulick. The following additional officers assigned to the United States Delegation to the Allied Commission on Reparations reported to Babelsberg in the course of the Berlin Conference: Moses Abramovitz, Francis W. H. Adams, Abram Bergson, Lieutenant Colonel G. S. Carter, Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., George H. Johnson, Ernst Mahler, Seymour J. Rubin, and Robert G. Sproul.