Office of the Historian

740.00119 EAC/5–2545: Telegram

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

London, May 25, 1945—11 a.m.
[Received May 25—8:52 a.m.]

5226. Comea 267. The Soviet Rep on the EAC has informed me that his Govt has approved the agreement between the four powers regarding amendments to the agreement on control machinery in Germany, as submitted by the EAC on May 1, to provide for the inclusion of France as the fourth controlling power. By this action approval of the May 1 amendments to the control machinery agreement has been completed by the four Govts.84

Gousev stated informally that his Govt assumes that no approval is required of the May 1 agreement amending the instrument of unconditional surrender,85 since the four Govts have already approved the declaration on the defeat of Germany, recommended by the EAC on May 12 (my 5087; repeated to Paris as 29386).

Sent to Dept as my 5226; repeated to Paris for Ambassadors Caffery and Murphy as 303.

Winant
  1. The agreement regarding the amendment of the control machinery agreement had been approved by the United States on May 14, by the United Kingdom on May 17, and by France on May 18. For text of the agreement, see TIAS No. 3070, or5 UST (pt.2) 2072.↩
  2. The agreement of May 1 amending the instrument of unconditional surrender, p. 258, was approved by the United States on May 14, by the United Kingdom on May 17, and by France on May 18.↩
  3. Dated May 21, not printed; it reported that all four Governments had approved the declaration on the defeat of Germany (740.00119 EAC/5–2145).↩