Department of Defense Files: Telegram
President Truman to the Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union (Stalin)
286. I deeply appreciate your message of yesterday’s date67 and thank you for your attentive interest in our effort to come to a friendly agreement with Marshal Tito on the question of military government in the Trieste region.
The agreement which was signed at Belgrade on 9 June covered the concrete proposals of the British and United States Governments. I fully agree that there should be no delay in coming to a firm settlement of the military government question and it is to this end that Marshal Alexander’s Chief of Staff will meet with Marshal Tito’s Chief of Staff next week to work out the military and technical details.