840.4016/9–2945: Telegram
The United States Political Adviser for Germany (Murphy) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 29—10:07 a.m.]
615. At the ninth meeting of the Coordinating Committee,19 it was decided that the Govts of Poland and Czechoslovakia and the Control Commission for Hungary should be requested to furnish certain [Page 1281] information concerning Germans still to be expelled from those countries under the terms of the Potsdam Agreement. At the tenth meeting of the Committee it was made clear that this request should be transmitted by identical notes presented by the four powers through the usual diplomatic channels. At the seventh meeting of the Political Directorate, on Sept 28, the terms of such a note were agreed upon as follows:
“The Allied Control Council for Germany has been charged with the responsibility of studying the question of transfer of Germans out of (blank) in an orderly and humane manner, and of preparing a report making recommendations on this question under section VIII [XIII?] of the Potsdam Agreement. It is accordingly necessary to have information as to the number of Germans who are to be transferred out of (blank), and also as to their age (showing persons over 60 and under 12) sex and occupation. The Allied Control Council accordingly requests, through the Govts of the United States, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, the United Kingdom and France, this information from the (blank) Govt as soon as it can conveniently be given.”
The Dept is accordingly requested to transmit the above message to the Govts of Poland and Czechoslovakia and the Allied Control Commission for Hungary on behalf of the Allied Control Council for Germany.
- Of the Allied Control Council for Germany.↩