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J. 333305-MONO-State
Galley 371
UNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF
that Marshal Stalin be asked that necessary administrative steps be
taken to make collaboration between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. work
more efficiently and more rapidly, and that he also be asked to state
what inefficiencies and delays his own people have experienced in
working with the U. S. in order that we may make necessary correc-
tions on our side.
A special planning mission headed by Brigadier General Frank N.
Roberts is now in Moscow and arrangements have been made for
them to meet with a corresponding special planning group from the
Red General Staff. No meeting has yet been scheduled by the Rus-
sians. It is felt that the combined efforts of these planning groups
can be of great benefit to both General Staffs in expediting exchange
of planning information and they should be given every assistance in
their work.
The Chiefs of Staff feel that all the above points, if raised at the
tripartite conference, should be discussed on the broadest basis; the
details should be worked out separately between the staff representa-
tives of the U. S. and U. S. S. R.
For the Joint Chiefs of Staff:
[GEORGE C. MARSHALL]
2
Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
2 Printed from an unsigned carbon copy.
WAR CRIMINALS
Roosevelt Papers : Telegram
Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt 1
1 Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels.
For other excerpts from this telegram, see ante, pp. , and -
[Excerpts]
TOP SECRET
LONDON, 22 October 1944.
Prime Minister to President Roosevelt Personal and Top Secret
Number 801.
Para 5. Major war criminals U. J. took an unexpectedly ultra-
respectable line. There must be no executions without trial otherwise
the world would say we were afraid to try them. I pointed out the
difficulties in International law but he replied if there were no trials
there must be no death sentences, but only life-long confinements.
In face of this view from this quarter I do not wish to press the
memo I gave you which you said you would have examined by the
State Department. Kindly therefore treat it as withdrawn.2
2 In reply (No. 632, dated October 22, 1944) Roosevelt commented: "Your
statement of the present attitude of U. J. towards war criminals, the future of
Germany, and Montreux convention is most interesting. We should discuss
these matters together with our Pacific war effort at the forthcoming three
party meeting.'
The text of Churchill's paragraph 5 was communicated to the Department of
State (740.00116 EW/10-2544).
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