Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945, Volume I

Leahy Papers: Telegram

No. 141
Prime Minister Churchill to President Truman ¹

top secret

London, 27 May 1945.

Prime Minister to President Truman. Personal and top secret. Number 56.

I have sent the following message to Marshal Stalin in reply to his telegram of May 23² about the German fleet.

“Prime Minister to Premier Stalin Personal and top secret.

I thank you for your telegram of May 23. It seems to me that these matters should form part of the general discussions which ought to take place between us and President Truman at the earliest possible date, and I thank you for giving me this outline of your views beforehand.”³

1. Sent by the United States Military Attaché London, via Army channels.
2. See document No. 386, footnote 2.
3. Cf. Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. i, p. 360.