800.4016 DP/10–2145: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the United States Political Adviser for Germany (Murphy), at Berlin
744. For administrative purposes involving transfer of populations, your statement cited in urtel 821, Oct 21, is considered accurate. Such interpretation, however, is not intended to prejudice agreement at Potsdam that final delimitation of Poland’s western frontier should await peace settlement. Nor does Dept interpret Article XIII to encourage immediate mass transfers of German populations from Poland.
While Potsdam agreement stipulated that any transfers that take place should be effected in an orderly and humane manner, information contained in urtel 830, Oct 23 casts grave doubt on orderly character of present transfers under way. We are opposed to precipitous and disorderly transfers and, if you deem practicable, we would support refusal to proceed with equitable distribution among occupation zones of Germans transferred in irregular and disorderly circumstances.