740.00119 EW/11–2845: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 29—12:30 a.m.]
6860. Discussing Couve de Murville’s trip to the US, Chauvel said that not only had the trip been useful as a means of presenting the [Page 912] French views on Ruhr and Rhineland to the US, but that the very searching questions which State Dept officials had posed had obligated the French further to clarify their own thoughts on German question. He readily admitted that thus far French have been concentrating their thoughts on Ruhr and Rhineland rather than on the over all German problem. Furthermore they have been looking at question purely from security point of view and he said have not given sufficient consideration to the economic consequences of their proposals.
As a result of the memoranda which de Murville brought back with him, particularly the questions raised by the Dept, Chauvel has directed Saint Hardouin75 to prepare a detailed report which in addition to answering some of our questions is designed to ascertain in what spheres lack of central administration for all Germany hampers and makes more difficult the administration of FR zone.
Sent Dept 6860; repeated Berlin 228; London 838.
- Marie Jacques Tarbé de Saint-Hardouin, Political Adviser to the Commander in Chief, French Forces in Germany.↩