Telegram from Prime Minister Winston Churchill to President Harry S. Truman
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E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (3)
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Dept. of State letter, Aug, 10,1872
3 June 1945
WITH DV Ta 11-4-7
From: U.S. Military Attache, London, England.
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TREMAN
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To : The President of The United States.
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Nr : 69
Filed 031533Z.
Prime Minister to President Truman, personal and TOP
SECRET, Number 69.
Following is statement referred to in my immediately
preceding.
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"After the Italian fleet had surrendered the Soviet
Government raised with the governments of the United Kingdom
and the United States the question of handing over to the
Soviet Government a number of Italian warships and merchant
ships. The Soviet Government represented that they had waged
war against Italy in alliance with His Majesty's Government
and the United States Government, and that the Soviet Navy
would make good use of any ships so handed over for prosecu-
ting the war against the principal enemy, Nazi Germany.
"2. The ships for which the Soviet Government asked
were: one battleship, one cruiser, eight destroyers, four
submarines, forty thousand tons of merchant shipping. These
ships the United Kingdom and United States Governments agreed,
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