Office of the Historian

740.00119 Control (Germany)/5–545: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)

Washington, May 5, 1945—7 p.m.

3546. Department’s 3332, April 28, 3 p.m. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have altered their views as to the extent of the area to be transferred from the United States to the French zone of occupation in Germany and now approve a delineation proposed by General Eisenhower on May 322

Caffery has been instructed to clarify certain areas with General Eisenhower and then informally to communicate this new proposal to the French Government.

As soon as you hear from Caffery it is desired that you negotiate with your French colleague a protocol based on (1) the area to be [Page 276] described to you by Caffery and (2) the views expressed in memorandum of the Joint Chiefs of Staff dated April 2723 and sent to you in Department’s air mail instruction 5389, April 30,24 except for statements contained in the last two sentences of paragraph 7b (3) and paragraph 8 which have now been superseded.

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  1. See message from General Eisenhower to Joint Chiefs of Staff, p. 261.↩
  2. See footnote 86, p. 249.↩
  3. Not printed.↩