Office of the Historian

740.00119 Control (Germany)/5–945: Telegram

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

Washington, May 9, 1945—7 p.m.

3657. Department’s telegram No. 3582, May 7. The pressure to give the American public some indication of our organizational plans for the military government of Germany has become so great that the [Page 283] War Department feels that it can no longer delay a public statement on the subject. You should therefore inform your colleagues on the European Advisory Commission that at twelve noon, Friday, May 11, a statement will be issued by Secretary Stimson which gives an outline of the organization of United States group of the Control Council for Germany. The statement will indicate the division of the United States group into 12 major divisions and the general functions of each but will make no reference to the question of similar organization by the other occupying powers.36

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  1. For text of the statement of May 11, 1945, see Department of State Bulletin, May 13, 1945, p. 900, or The Axis in Defeat (Department of State publication No. 2423), p. 60.↩