Extracted text

OCR Page 1 of 4
NLT-194 ( R 5399 o 21458 S. 2 JUNE 1945 = U.S AND OPERATIONAL PRIORITY DECLASSIFIED by authority of PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET kept gittal F.R.Stelan NUMBER 54 Foof Initials/He Dater-7-73 TO: THE PRIME MINISTER FROM: THE PRESIDENT ON MAY 27 MARSHAL STALIN PROPOSED THAT OUR GOVERNMENTS ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH FINLAND, RUMANIA, BULGARIA AND, AT A LATER TIME, HUNGARY. HE SAID HE WAS SENDING YOU A SIMILAR MESSAGE. I AM TODAY REPLYING TO HDM AS follows: "I HAVE GIVEN CONSIDERABLE THOUGHT TO YOUR MESSAGE OF MAY 27 IN WHICH YOU PROPOSE THAT OUR GOVERNMENTS SHOULD AT THIS TIME ESTABLISH DIPLO- MATIC RELATIONS WITH FINLAND, RUMANIA, BULGARIA AND, AT A LATER TIME, HUNGARY. "YOUR SUGGESTION SHOUS THAT YOU FEEL, AS I DO, THAT WE SHOULD ENDEAVOR TO MAKE THE PERIOD OF THE ARMISTICE REGIMES AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE AND ALSO GIVE PROMPT RECOGNITION TO ALL EFFORTS WHICH