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

862.6362/7–3045

No. 1050
The Third Secretary of the British Embassy ( Miles ) to the Assistant Adviser on German Economic Affairs ( deWilde )

Ref. G269/–/45

Washington , July 30, 1945.

My Dear deWilde , I enclose an Aide-Mémoire relating to the draft directive on coal production in Germany.

Presumably you will be hearing from Potsdam yourself about the discussions that have taken place there. I do not know whether you consider any further coordination is necessary over the timing of the two directives.

Yours sincerely,

Richard Miles

[Enclosure]

Aide-Mémoire

His Majesty’s Government have given consideration to the revised directive to the American Commander-in-Chief in Europe,¹ which was handed to this Embassy with the State Department’s Aide-Mémoire of July 11th,² concerning coal production in Germany.

The question has been discussed in the British Delegation at the Berlin Conference and the Foreign Secretary has now informed Mr. Byrnes ³ that His Majesty’s Government are in agreement with the terms of the revised directive and will arrange for a directive in the same terms to be issued to Field Marshal Montgomery as interim instructions.

Washington , July 30, 1945.

1. Attachment to document No. 1046.
2. Document No. 432, printed in vol. i .
3. See document No. 1044.