Telegram from Prime Minister Winston Churchill to President Franklin D. Roosevelt

TOD crance NOP CLUILT DESLASSIFIED E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or OR FROM: THE PRESIDENT Dept. at State letter, Aug. 10, 1872 By NLT-WC WARS Date 6.30.25 TO : THE PRIME MINISTER NO : 737, 8 APRIL 1945 I recognize the force of the observations on the Russian angle in your 932 and agree that it might be better not to go forward with a tripartite economic mission at the present time. On the other hand I think it would be a mistake to set up a bilateral mission. This would look as though we, for our part, were disregarding the Yalta decision for tripartite action in liber- ated areas and might easily be. interpreted as indicating that we consider the Yalta decisions as no longer valid. Such is certainly not the case, as you know, and I therefore feel that we must be careful not to do anything that would weaken the effectiveness of our efforts to get the Russians to honor those decisions on their side. Our Ambassador at Athens recently put up to us, at the instance of Mr. Leeper, the suggestion of a joint Anglo-American committee of experts, respon- sible to our two Embassies, to advise the Greek Government on financial and economic policies. Having the above considerations in mind, we told him we could not approve a formal setup of this kind, but that the Embassy experts its should of course continue to keep in close touch with their British colleagues and the Greek authorities and offer the latter such informal advice and assist- ance as might be called for. We have agreed with your people to accept the Greek Government's invitations to you and to us to send transportation experts to Greece. This is a very specific situation where a coordinated recommendation is essential, since there will be a joint interest in the supply of any equip- ment necessary to get transportation going again in Greece. Our people are also CHATIONAL - 1 ARCHIVES AND ALGORDS SERVICE