Office of the Historian

President Roosevelt to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)11

[Washington,] April 12, 1945.

230. Personal for Ambassador Harriman. Replying to your message 1210311 have replied to Churchill’s 940 by quoting my message to Stalin.12 Churchill is therefore fully informed and there is no necessity of your delaying delivery of my message to Stalin.

Your second question. I do not wish to delete the word “minor” as it is my desire to consider the Berne misunderstanding a minor incident.

Roosevelt
  1. Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. A marginal notation indicates that this telegram was dispatched from the White House Map Room at 9:39 p.m. Greenwhich Mean Time, April 12.↩
  2. See Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, p. 453.↩