740.00119 EW/4–545
The British Embassy to the Department of State
Memorandum
His Majesty’s Government have carefully considered the suggestions put forward by the United States Government in the State Department’s memorandum 740.00119 EW/10–444 of the 15th November 1944,30 and are in a position to accept them subject to certain provisos. Thus, they hold that before any reply is returned by the United States Government and themselves to the Italian Government, the Soviet Government and the French Government as the other governments represented on European Advisory Commission should be informed through diplomatic channel of what is intended. They further hold that the French Provisional Government should be included among those to whom the Italian Government would be invited to submit their views with regard to surrender arrangements for Germany in accordance with the proposals of the United States Government.
His Majesty’s Government would be glad to know whether the United States Government agrees and whether it is prepared to instruct the United States Ambassadors at Moscow and Paris31 to concert with His Majesty’s Ambassadors32 in informing the Soviet and the French Provisional Government of the intentions of the two Governments on the basis of the State Department’s memorandum under reference, as modified by paragraph 1 above.
- Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. i, p. 83.↩
- W. Averell Harriman at Moscow, and Jefferson Caffery at Paris.↩
- Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador in the Soviet Union, and Alfred Duff Cooper, British Ambassador in France.↩