740.0011 E.W./9–744: Telegram
Mr. Alexander C. Kirk, United States Political Adviser on the Staff of the Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theater (Wilson), to the Secretary of State
[Received September 8—12:35 p.m.]
324. OSS representative referred to in my 313, September 7, 1 p.m. has been advised that his reply to Neubacher’s emissary was quite in order. He has been informed of principles to be applied to local German forces seeking to surrender as set forth by the CCS2 on August 163 in FAN4 395 to SACMED and FACS4 511 to SHAEF and [Page 550] has been instructed that he is to be guided by these principles in any future negotiations.
SACMED has also directed Maclean’s6 mission to issue instructions to all BLOs7 in Yugoslavia in similar sense.
[Documentation regarding the discussions on postwar treatment of Germany, which took place at the Second Quebec Conference, September 11–16, 1944, is scheduled for publication in a subsequent volume of Foreign Relations. A photographic copy of the so-called “Morgenthau Plan” on Germany is printed before the preface to Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Germany Is Our Problem (New York, 1945).]
- Combined Chiefs of Staff.↩
- Presumably the reference here is to the message mentioned in the memorandum by the Combined Chiefs of Staff, August 18, the text of which is given in the annex to that memorandum, p. 542.↩
- Military communications indicator.↩
- Military communications indicator.↩
- Brig. Fitzroy H. R. Maclean, Commanding British Military Mission to the Partisans in Yugoslavia.↩
- British Liaison Officers.↩