740.00119 Control (Germany)/5–645: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:20 p.m.]
2410. Having in mind Jeanneney’s29 urgent request that the French be consulted before the French occupation zone was fixed I told de Gaulle this morning that the matter of the French occupation zone is to be discussed by the interested parties in the EAC and that as advance information was giving him informally our ideas on the subject. I had sketched for him a map showing the zone set out in the Department’s 1869 of May 5 with the exception of the Bezirk of Karlsruhe leaving that to Winant to offer also if necessary.
General Eisenhower agrees with me that Karlsruhe can be included in the French zone but only if essential to secure the success of the negotiations.
The only question that de Gaulle raised was “what about the difficulties of administration in Baden and in Wurttemberg if you cut them each in two?” I told him that I did not consider that an insurmountable difficulty. He was very affable but did not commit himself.
(Department 2410; repeated London paraphrase 282).
- Jules Jeanneney, Frpnch Minister of State.↩