740.00119 EAC/3–2245: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 23—4:20 a.m.]
3002. Comea 196. In conversation tonight with Mosely, De Leusse,97 Massigli’s assistant on the EAC, put forward informally and not as an official proposal the following division of districts in greater Berlin. De Leusse discussed it today with Hood98 of the Foreign Office and apparently has not presented it to the Soviet delegation.
The informal French proposal is as follows:
French Area:
Tiergarten, Charlottenburg, Wilmersdorf, Zehlendorf.
United States Area:
Kreutzberg, Schoeneberg, Steglitz, Neukölln, Tempelhof, Treptow.
Soviet Area:
Weissensee, Prenzlauerberg, Mitte, Friedrichshain, Lichtenberg, Köpenick.
United Kingdom Area:
Wedding, Pankow, Reinickendorf, Spandau. De Leusse indicated that Hood’s reaction was that the proposed British area was not adequate in terms of facilities; De Leusse thought Charlottenburg might be shifted from the French to the British area. Obviously the French are not satisfied with the area proposed by the British for French occupation (my 2092, February 28, 10 p.m., Comea 189) and are seeking some adjustment which would give them better railroad and hotel facilities.