Memoranda from James Forrestal and Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman

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May 8, 1945 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: Thanks of Netherlands Prime Minister. The Prime Minister of the Netherlands has requested that there be conveyed to you his deep appreciation and hearty thanks for the measures taken to introduce food into the letherlands and bring about German capitulation. The Prime Minister declared that this is one of the great- est moments in the history of his country and that the attitude and action of the American Government and our armed forces is each day making more broad and more solid the foundations for the always cordial and reciprocal helpful relations between the people of the Netherlands and those of the United States. ARCHIVESIAND NATIONAL RECORDS SERVICE" JOSEPH C. GREW c Acting Secretary