Roosevelt Papers: Telegram
Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt 1
Prime Minister to President Roosevelt Personal and Top Secret Number 801.
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Para 6. We2 also discussed informally the future partition of Germany. U. J. wants Poland Czecho and Hungary to form a realm of independent anti-Nazi pro-Russian states, the first two of which might join together. Contrary to his previously expressed view, he would be glad to see Vienna the capital of a federation of south-German [Page 160] states, including Austria, Bavaria, Württemberg, and Baden. As you know, the idea of Vienna becoming the capital of a large Danubian federation has always been attractive to me, though I should prefer to add Hungary, to which U. J. is strongly opposed.
Para 7. As to Prussia, U. J. wished the Ruhr and the Saar detached and put out of action and probably under international control and a separate state formed in the Rhineland. He would also like the internationalization of the Kiel canal. I am not opposed to this line of thought. However, you may be sure that we came to no fixed conclusions pending the triple meeting.3
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- Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels. For other excerpts from this telegram, see ante, p. 10, and post, pp. 206, 328, 400.↩
- Churchill and Stalin in Moscow.↩
- In reply (No. 632, dated October 22, 1944) Roosevelt commented: “Your statement of the present attitude of U. J. towards war criminals, the future of Germany, and Montreux convention is most interesting. We should discuss these matters together with our Pacific war effort at the forthcoming three party meeting.” (Roosevelt Papers.)↩