Memorandum from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman

DECLASSIFIED and 5(D) or (E) TOP SECRET 11652, Sec. 3(E) E.O. 10, 1972 letter, Aug. Dept. of State NARS Date DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON April 30, 1945 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: Current Foreign Developments RUSSIANS DEFER DEPARTURE OF AMERICAN REPRESENTA- TIVES TO VIENNA. An official of the Soviet Foreign Office has informed the American Charge in Moscow that the American official group which planned to proceed to Vienna to arrange occupation zones and participate in the establishment of control machinery can proceed after the European Advisory Commission has fixed occupation zones for Vienna. He stated that until EAC action on this subject had been com- pleted, the arrival of our group in Vienna would be premature and undesirable. The Soviet official added that the Russian representative on EAC had instruc- tions which would permit early solution of this problem. AMERICAN MISSION TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA. The Chargé at Moscow called at the Soviet Foreign Office to discuss the delay in the admission of our advance staff into Czechoslovakia. The Soviet official to whom he spoke interrupted to state that this question would be solved in a satisfactory manner in the very near future. Under the circumstances, the Charge did not make the approach authorized by the Department.