Memorandum from Prime Minister Winston Churchill to President Harry S. Truman with Attachment
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OCR Page 1 of 7DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1072 1:20-72
ROGAN To GUTTARSON
MOST OBCRE
By NLT-AC # MARS Date 6.29.76
TRUNAN
10, Street,
ARCHIVES NATIONAL AND
RECORDS SERVICE"
to
July 24, 1945.
TRUMAN
ARCHIVES SERVICE* RECORDS NATIONAL AND
Mydear Mr. President,
I thank you for your memorandum of July 17.
I am pleased that you say the Agreement made in Washington
last autumn stands. We have never, of course, regarded
the munitions schedules as absolutely rigid. Indeed I am
told that our munitions requirements have already been
scaled down from the 2.8 billion dollars agreed last
autumn for the first year of Stage II. to 1.8 billion,
and that all these items are within the terms then arranged.
Unfortunately the Departments in Washington have recently
been insisting that nothing can be delivered save what is
needed for direct use against Japan, and interpreting this
in the narrowest possible sense; this has reduced munitions
supplies almost to vanishing point, and has put us in a
very difficult position.
Much as I dislike troubling you with technical
questions of this kind at the present time, it is urgently
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Potsdam Conference, 1945
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