Telegram from Prime Minister Winston Churchill to President Harry S. Truman

112) For SECHLET JUN 13 TOPSECRET - TOT Neturn to Map Room for File 14 From: U. S. Military Attache, London, England R To: The President of The United States That Nr: 87 Filed 140015Z Prime Minister to President Truman. Personal and TOP SECRET. Number 87. Chick 3 Your Number 70. 1. Obviously we are obliged to conform to your de- cision, and the necessary instructions will be Missued. 2. It is not. correct to state that the tripartite agreement about zones of occupation in Germany were the sub- ject of "long consideration and detailed discussion" between me and President Roosevelt. References made to them at OCTAGON were brief and concerned only the Anglo American arrangements which the President did not wish to raise by correspondence beforehand. These were remitted to the Com- bined Chiefs of Staff and were certainly acceptable to them. 3. As to Austria I do not think we can make the commanders on the spot responsible for settling the outstan- ding questions. Marshal Stalin made it quite plain in his message of the 18th May, that agreement on the occupation and control of Austria must be settled by the EAC. I do DECLASSIFIED E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) as 5 Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, ASTZ MITH-HC MA30 Duta 11-4-H TOP