VIEWS OF BARUCH AND THE ISLANDERS ON TREATMENT OF GERMANY: MATROS, BYRNES, SAMUEL LUBELL, SCHIMMEL (1945)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: June 23, 1945
• Content Type: CABLE

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Ref. No: 3/NW/T2260 25X1
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Copy No: 301
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From: WASHINGTON
To: MOSCOW
No : 3 639
VIEWS OF BARUCH AND THE "ISLANDERS" ON TREATMENT OF GERMANY: "MATROS", BYRNES,
SAMUEL LUBELL SCHIMME. (1 4
23 June 1945
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..." [2 groups unrecovered] him on this score,
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that "MATROS"[ii] 13 groups unrecovered] with him on the question of treating
GERMANY with severity. On the treatment of GERMANY BARUCH[iii] spoke
chiefly with BYRNES[iv] and stated that [9 groups unrecovered] treatment of
GERMANY.
BARUCH's assistant, Samuel LUBELL[v], informed SCHIMMEL[ShIMMEL'][vi]
[5 groups unrecovered] BARUCH analysis [1 group unrecovered] in EUROPE. The
"ISLANDERS[OSTROVITYaNE]"[vii] consider that the reconstruction of EUROPE
[7 groups unrecovered] influence of the "ISLAND[OSTROV]"[vii] and they
therefore persistently support in EUROPE the idea of creating [3 groups
unrecovered] bloc. The "ISLAND"
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the "COUNTRY[STRANA]"[viii] and therefore the "ISLAND" now wants to speed up
the placing of captured German industry under "ISLAND[OSTROVNOJ]"[vii] control
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with German industry even dating from pre-war times. BARUCH assumes that [7
groups unrecovered] GERMANY - either a severe policy towards her, or,
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her industry, but seize
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Footnotes: [i] Addressee, internal serial number. and signatory unrecoverable.
[ii] MATROS: ie "SAILOR"; President Harry S TRUMAN.
[iii]. BARUCH: Bernard Mannes BARUCH, Chief of the Advisory
Unit on War and Post-war Adjustment. Policies,
Office of War Mobilization, 1943-44. In March-
April 1945 President ROOSEVELT sent him to
LONDON to discuss German reparations with
Winston CHURCHILL.
[iv] BYRNES: James Francis BYRNES, Director of the Office
of War Mobilization and of its successor, the
Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, from
May 1943 to April 1945; appointed U.S. Secretary
of State on 30 June 1945.
[v] Samuel LUBELL: Executive Assistant to BARUCH (Footnote [iii])
in the Advisory.Unit on War and Post-war
Adjustment Policies, Office of War. Mobilization,
in 1944.
[vi] SCHIMMEL: Presumably Herbert S SCHIMMEL, Chief of Investiga-
tion and Hearings, Senate Sub-Committee on War
Mobilization (the KILGORE Committee), 1942-46;
the KILGORE Committee visited EUROPE in May-
June 1945.
[vii] ISLANDERS,
ISLAND: (The) British; GREAT BRITAIN; British (adj).
[viii] COUNTRY: The U.S.A.
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