Word: eac
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Critical Commitment. Then and now, the EAC and Yalta agreements have been severely criticized because they provided for no Allied access to Berlin through Soviet territory. The U.S. delegate to the commission, the late John G. Winant, strongly urged the State Department to demand some guarantee of access; his proposal was ignored, apparently because Washington felt that to insist on specific routes would limit the Allies only to those agreed-on roads or airlanes. At the time, Ike had no particular worries about access to Berlin, but on several occasions he strongly opposed the idea of separate occupation zones...
Academic Mistake. Through much of 1944, U.S. Ambassador to Britain John Winant pleaded with Washington to plan ahead, to insist on detailed provisions for Western access to Berlin as part of the occupation-zone system being engineered by EAC-the European Advisory Commission (the U.S., Britain, Russia), to which Winant was U.S. delegate. But the War Department opposed a specific agreement on Berlin access routes, argued that it would be best to leave the problem to the soldiers on the scene. When General Lucius Clay, acting as General Eisenhower's representative, finally met with Soviet General Georgy Zhukov...