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      Departments and from the three branches of their armed services 
      - Army, Navy and Air. The responsibility for appointment of the 
      Advisers rested on the respective services. The conclusions and 
      recommendations reached by the Commission have been by unanimous 
       agreement and with the concurrence of the Advisers.  
 
                                                            
 
 
When I returned to London to take up my duties on the Commission, 
      I understood from you that there was agreement at Teheran on 
      the basic principle of unconditional surrender, and that you 
      supported the principle of tripartite responsibility following 
      unconditional surrender. You also told me that you wished United 
      States troops to occupy the northwestern zone in Germany following 
      unconditional surrender. These directions which you gave me as 
      guidance I followed without com-promise. Holding to your instruction 
      to insist on the northwestern zone was responsible for delay 
          in reaching agreement on zones of occupation.     
 
                                                            
 
 
By last November 14 three basic agreements had been reached 
      in the European Advisory Commission: the Unconditional Surrender 
      Instrument, the Control Machinery for Germany, and the Protocol 
      on zones of Occupation. The Control Machinery Agreement and the 
      Protocol on Oones also provide for the assignment of areas for 
      occupation in Greater Berlin and for tripartite control of the 
      administration of Berlin. Each and all of these Agreements contains 
      a larger share of the United States' position thau of those advanced 
                 by the British or the Russians.            
 
                                                            
 
 
All three Governments have agreed on the Unconditional Surrender 
      Instrument. The United States Government and the United Kingdom 
      have agreed on the Control Machinery. U.S. approval of the Protocol 
      on Oones in Germany and Areas in Berlin has been waiting until 
      the British conceded the control of Bremen and Bremerhaven and 
      of rail, road and canal facilities for our use in supplying our 
      troops in the southern zone. I understand that the British and 
      U.S. Chiefs of St %aff have now reached agreement on these facilities. 
      It is my hope that you and the Prime Minister, or the two Secretaries 
      of State, will get Russian governmental confirmation of the two 
      Agreements on Oones and on Control Machinery.