Letter from President Harry S. Truman to Prime Minister Clement Attlee, with Related Material
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OCR Page 1 of 6WLT(PSF.,UUST) 210
copy / of 5.
January 28, 1949
FOR SECRET
Personal
Dear Mr. Prime Minister:
I very much appreciate your letter of January ninth
and the frankness with which you have set forth the
difficult and delicate situation with which you are
confronted in the matter of the security position in
Australia,
I need not tell you how strongly I too desire to avoid
any disruption of indispensable relations among the
three netions. I recognize fully the unpleasant dilemma
in which your Government finds itself since, to a degree
certainly, we face the same dilemma ourselves; and you
have my assurance that we will do all that we can to
assist you in resolving this dilemma. I can understand
as well the natural anxiety of the Australian Government
to set its house in order and to resume with us both its
partnership in all defense matters, including those of
defense research,
With these things in mind, I agree with you that a full
and frank discussion with a person whose qualifications
are such as you describe for Sir Frederick Shedden
should prove to be useful. I shall, therefore, ask our
Secretary of Defense to extend an invitation to Sir
Frederick to visit Washington en route to London in May
and to make the arrangements that will put him in touch
with the appropriate U.S. officials,
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 13526
Authority LP- HST 2016-008 #14
NARA So Date 7/16/2019
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