Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1945, Europe, Volume V

740.00112 EW/1–2640

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Caffery)

Washington, January 29, 1945—midnight.

352. London’s 935, January 26 to Department repeated to Paris.¹⁵ After consultation with British Embassy, which presumably has similar instructions please invite appropriate French authorities to participate in forthcoming negotiations with the Swiss with particular reference to aspects thereof in which France has direct interest. It is planned that negotiations will include both economic warfare and Safehaven¹⁶ considerations, and presentation will, of course, depend on conversations which Delegation will have in London and Paris (it is on the point of leaving) and on the military situation at the time of arrival at Bern.

Sent Paris repeated London and Bern.¹⁸

Grew

15. Not printed.
16. Code name for sending and concealing Axis assets abroad, and project by United States and British Governments to locate and gain control of these assets. For documentation on this subject, see vol. ii, pp. 852 ff.
18. Repeated to London as No. 711 and Bern as No. 499.