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

Moscow Embassy Files—500 Berlin Conference

No. 206
The Representative on the Allied Commission on Reparations (Pauley) to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)

[Moscow,] July 11, 1945.

Dear Averell: I am attaching you two copies of a letter which I have just written to Mr. Maisky. I shall appreciate your sending one copy of this letter together with an appropriate letter of transmittal to Mr. Molotov in order that there may be no question that the Soviet Government has been properly notified that reparations may be a subject for discussion at the forthcoming meeting of the heads of the three governments.

Sincerely yours,

Edwin W Pauley

[Enclosure]

The Representative on the Allied Commission on Reparations (Pauley) to the Chairman of the Allied Commission on Reparations (Maisky)

[Moscow,] July 11, 1945.

Dear Mr. Maisky: As the personal representative of the President of the United States and as the American Representative on the Allied Commission on Reparations, I wish to advise your Government that the general subject of reparations will be one of the topics which the President may wish to raise for discussion at the forthcoming meeting of the heads of the three Governments and that such discussion among other items related to reparations may cover the points raised in my letter to you of July 3, 1945.¹

Sincerely yours,

[

Edwin W. Pauley

]

1. Document No. 364.