Nr. 12c: Schreiben des amerikanischen Außenministers James F. Byrnes
an den französischen Ministerpräsidenten Georges Bidault
während der Pariser Außenministerkonferenz.
25.9.1946
Archives du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Europe (1944-1960), Sarre 17.™
My dear Mr. President:
Since I talked with you on Monday I have been considering the action you advised
me the French Government planned to take with reference to integrating the economy
of the Saar with France. I hope that upon further consideration you will determine
not to take any unilateral action in this regard.
As you know, the United States Government has announced that it will at the Peace
Conference support the claim of France to the Saar territory.
Further, we have stated we would be willing to have the Saar excluded from the
jurisdiction of the central German administrative agencies to be set under the
Potsdam Agreement,
But the United States Government feels very strongly that no unilateral action
should be taken by the French Government and that the question of separate
administration of the Saar pending the Peace Conference ought to be presented to
the Council of Foreign Ministers prior to any action.
With assurances of my esteem, I am
Very respectfully yours, (James F. Byrnes}
James F. Byrnes
Nr. 12d: Memorandum von Albert Andrew Ernest Franklin,
britisches Außenministerium.
26.9.1946
National Archives - Foreign Office, FO 371/55801/C 11541/1679/G18.
The territory referred to is certain to be the extended Saar territory. The French
note of 6th September in C 10773/1679/18* 39 makes it clear that the French, when
using the term „Saar“ now mean the enlarged territory. This is about double the
size of the old Saar, although the added area is economically less important. We
have entered a reserve on the question of this unilateral extension of the Saar. [...]
18 Bereits publiziert in: FRUS 1946, Vol. 5, Part 2, S. 610.
39 Hier nicht abgedruckt.
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