Telegram from President Harry S. Truman to Prime Minister Winston Churchill

DECLASSIFIED by autharity of NLT-309 S tate Dept its to NARS 8-10-72 NL memo to NLT TOP SEGRET 4-12-73 s. Initials BIZ Date 5/21/7Y us. AND TOP SEORET 21. MAY 1945 PRIORITY 1945 MAY 21 7414 FROM: OPNAV TO : ALUSNA, LONDON 211921Z NCR NUMBER 45, TOP SECRET AND PERSONAL, FROM THE PRESIDENT FOR THE PRIME MINISTER. Your number 53. I am informing the Chiefs of Staff of our approval of the message to Eisenhower and Alexander. I may, within the next two weeks, have more information bearing on a date and location for the proposed tripartite meeting if Stalin agrees to participate. I hope he will agree to come west into Germany or further west, but I am advised that he is not likely to go beyond Soviet controlled territory. Referring to my number 43, it would seem at the present time that support by your Embassy in Moscow would probably be as effective as a separate but similar message from you. I indulge in a hope that U.J. will use his influence to assist in reaching a settlement of the Tito problem in Venezia Giulia. TRUMAN SATIS Released from the White House Map Room at 211921Z May 1945: 12-5 Ogden OGDEN S. COLLINS, JR., R. Lieutenant, U.S.N.R.