740.00119 E.A.C./6–445: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 4—2:50 p.m.]
5630. Comea 280. For Caffery and Murphy.21 At today’s meeting EAC recorded the following agreed statement:
“The EAC takes note that the following procedure has been agreed between the Govts of the USA, USSR and UK and the Provisional Govt of the French Republics; (1) the four Allied Commanders-in-Chief will meet in Berlin on June 5 to sign and issue the declaration on the defeat of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority with respect to Germany; (2) upon signature of the declaration, the four Allied Representatives will constitute the Control Council in order to deal with matters affecting Germany as a whole and in order to begin the establishment of the control machinery as provided in the agreement on control machinery in Germany, of Nov 14, 1944 amended by the agreement regarding amendments to the above mentioned agreement of May 1, 1945.”
Sent to Dept as 5630 Comea 280; rptd to Paris as 340, and to Moscow as 186. I have informed Gen Eisenhower direct.
- This telegram was repeated to Caffery and Murphy in Paris as telegram 340.↩