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Letter from Marshal Joseph Stalin to President Harry S. Truman
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DESLASSIFIED
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972
TOP SECRET
BYULTHE NARS Date 7-23-75
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
April 22, 1945.
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
Persons present:
President
Secretary
Mr. Harriman
TRUMAN
Mr. Dunn
Mr. Bohlen
LITTLE ARCHIVES AND
"NATIONAL
REGORDS
Mr. Eden
D.S.
SERVICE
(latter part)
THE SECRETARY said he had just explained to the President the
arrangements for Molotov's reception, namely, that there would be
no military honors and that the President would receive Mr. Molotov
after dinner with Ambassador Harriman present and Mr. Bohlen to act
as interpreter, and he said the President had agreed with the sug-
gested approach contained in his memorandum (copy attached). The
President had thought it would be a good idea for him to issue a
statement following the Minister's talk here in Washington. He
added that the President had signed the letter in regard to the
commitments on what we will favor in the outline and had left it
to their discretion whether or not to read this letter at the
Conference. He also said that the President had asked Judge
Rosenman to go to San Francisco for a brief visit to discuss the
question of war crimes. The question then arose as to whether
the President should raise the question of the recently concluded
Soviet-Polish treaty. THE PRESIDENT decided that he would not
raise