Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945, Volume I

740.00119 Potsdam/7–1445

No. 218
The Assistant Secretary of State (Dunn) to the Secretary of State ¹

[Extracts]²

secret

Potsdam, July 14, 1945.

Memorandum for the Secretary

Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, called this afternoon and discussed for two hours in a preliminary way a number of matters on the agenda of the Conference.³

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4. German-Polish Frontier.

… Sir Alexander … expressed opposition to the Oder–Neisse line, which would raise to between ten and twelve million the number of Germans subject to transfer.⁴ Sir Alexander thought the problem of the transfer of the German population from these territories and from Czechoslovakia was bound to come up at the Conference because of its effect on the rest of Germany and on the responsibilities of the Control Council.

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10. The Balkans.

… He [Cadogan] proposes to raise questions concerning the Russian removals of oil equipment from Rumania and the failure of the Yugoslav Government to carry out the Tito-Šubašić agreement.⁵

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James Clement Dunn

1. Printed from a carbon copy on which there is an uncertified typed signature.
2. For other extracts from this memorandum, see documents Nos. 140, 234, 258, 319, 351, 379, 404, 470, 519, 635, 645, 678, and 708.
3. For a list of persons present at this meeting, see document No. 234, footnote 3.
4. From German territory placed under Polish administration.
5. See Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, pp. 251–254.