740.00119 Council/6–148: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Douglas) to the Secretary of State
2405. Massigli suggests, in accordance with a communication which he received today from Bidault, that immediately after the recommendations on Germany have been agreed by governments, a note be delivered to the USSR through the respective Embassies in Moscow stating in effect (a) that for the reasons we all know, we have found it necessary to proceed in western Germany; (b) that we are sincerely hopeful that this will not mean an ultimate division of Germany, and (c) that we consider the agreements as open ones and would welcome Soviet association in them.1
I pointed out that while this might be true in regard to the political organization, we would doubtless have serious objections to Soviet association in the international authority for the Ruhr and that we would hardly be prepared to agree that the Soviet should be associated with us in all of the recommendations covering security. Strang expressed the same view, Massigli agreed that our reservations were correct, that he would so notify Bidault and would give us a further suggestion tomorrow or later.
- In telegram 2477, June 4, from London, not printed, Ambassador Douglas reported that he had been informed by the French Chargé in London, Philippe Baudet, that the French Foreign Ministry was very firm in the suggestion outlined here. Baudet, who presented Douglas with a draft communication to be given to the Soviet Union, did state that France agreed the Soviet Union should not be invited to join the international control of the Ruhr or the security aspects of the London agreements on Germany. (740.00119 Council/6–448)↩