Office of the Historian

740.00119 EAC/3–1745: Telegram

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

Washington, March 24, 1945—7 p.m.

2292. A new definitive statement of policy to take the place of the memorandum on policy toward Germany, referred to in our 2076, March 17, 5 p.m., has been drafted in collaboration with the War and Treasury Departments. This memorandum dated March 23, 1945 has received the approval of the President and supersedes the memorandum mentioned in our 2076. The new policy statement is considerably shorter than our memorandum of March 10 but contains many of the points made therein. We believe that it sufficiently reflects the Department’s point of view to help your continued negotiations in the EAC.

It has been agreed with the War Department that a revision of JCS 1067 must be prepared and likewise that the remaining draft directives must be cleared in Washington and transmitted to you. We shall start to work on both of these at once.

The text of the memorandum of March 23 is contained in Department’s immediately following telegram.10

Grew
  1. Telegram 2293, March 24, 8 p.m., to London, not printed.↩