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Memorandum from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman
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DESLASS!FIED
11652. Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or 1972 a
TOP SECRET
E.O. State letter. Aug. 627-75 10.
Dept. DINETING. of NARS Date
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
the
May 16, 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: M. Bidault's Visit to Washington
Secretary Stettinius requested me to convey to
you the information contained in his telegram No 6
of May 16, in which he states that the French Foreign
Minister, M. Bidault, who is arriving in Washington
tomorrow, expects to make a strong plea to you to
have General de Gaulle included in the proposed meet-
ing between Mr. Churchill, Marshal Stalin and your-
self. A copy of the Secretary's above-mentioned
telegram is enclosed.
When you receive M. Bidault, it is suggested
that you might care to open the subject of de Gaulle
by referring to the question which you were asked at
the press conference yesterday; that is as to whether
a meeting of the Big Five would take place at San
Francisco and to your reply, which was interpreted
by the correspondent as excluding de Gaulle from the
forthcoming meeting. This might give you the oppor-
tunity of saying that you yourself would be very glad
to have de Gaulle invited to the forthcoming meeting,
which would then be a meeting of the Big Four, but
that in as much as it had to be acted upon by common
agreement, you would put the mattér up to Mr. Churchill
and Stalin.
Acting Secretary
Enclosure:
ARCHIVES "NATIONAL SERVICEAR RECORDS AND
Telegram No. 6, May 16.