740.00119 Control (Germany)/12–1545
Memorandum by the Deputy Director of the Office of European Affairs (Hickerson) to the Chief of the Division of Central European Affairs (Riddleberger)
[Washington,] December 15, 1945.
It has been learned from an unmistakably correct source that the French Ambassador in Moscow has reached the conclusion and has reported to his Government that the position of the Soviet Government in regard to the Ruhr has not changed since Potsdam; that is, the Soviet Government favors “a regime of internationalization of the Ruhr under the control of the four occupying powers, the regime in question to remain German.”
John Hickerson