Churchill Did Not Want Unconditional Surrender
Received Fridav 8.50 p.m. NEW YORK, July 21. Doeuments in the U.S.A. conlirmed Mr Churchill 's statement that he agreed only reluctantly to President Roosevelt's "unconditional surrender" policy for Germany, says the New York Times, It quoted the memoirs of the F.S.A. wartime Secretary of State (Cordell IIull) which said unconditional surrender originallv had not formed part. of the State Department's thinking. "We were as much surprised as Mr Churchill whnn-for the lirst time President Roosevelt in Mr Churchill 's pre= sence stated it suddenly to a Press conference. During the Casablanea Conference in January 1943 I was told the Prime Minister was dumfounded," yrote Mr IIull. The British Foreign Office had asked that the term "unconditional surrender" be avoided pending further refleetion, Mr IIull wrote, and that the expression "prompt surreiy cler" be used instead. The Times said that eonlirmation that the surrender poliey was entirely Roosevelt's was given by the noted author, Robert Sherwood, in his book "Roosevelt and Hopkins." Sherwood recorded that Roosevelt completely absolved Churchill of any responsibility for the position announced at Casablanea.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 July 1949, Page 5
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