Telegram from Ambassador Averell Harriman to President Harry S. Truman

DECLASSIFIED by authority of S. NLT-5f STATE DEPT.LTR.8.1022 to NARS NL MEMO 4.12.73 U.S. 10 NLT Initials EXACT TRANSLATION (U.S.) (RESTRICTED) (CONFIDENTIAL) (SECRET) OP PRIORITY URGENT (PRIORITY) (ROUTINE) (DEFERRED) WEST WIND SS PERSONAL AND TOPSECRET FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM HARRNMAN COLON X` PARA X ITEM HAD A MOST EARNEST AND INTIMATE TAKK WITH MARSHAL STALIN LAST NIGHT X ALTHOUGH SOME OF OUR FUNDAMENTAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT SUCH AS POLAND DID NOT COME UP X THE CONVERSATION WAS MUST SATISFACTORY ON THOSE MATTERS WHICH WE DISCUSSED X INSPEAKING PF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND YOURSELF STALIN SAJD QUOTE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAS DIED BUT HIS CAUSE MUST LIVE ONE X WE SHALL SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMAN WITH ALL OUR FORCES AND WITH ALL OUR WILL UNQUOTE HE ASKED ME TO so INFORM YOU X HIS AGREEMENT TO MY POKPOSAL TO SEND MOLOTOV TO THE UNITED STATES AT THIS TIME WAS MADE IN ORDER TO INDICATE TO THE WORLD HIS ATTITUDE X PARA X: IN SPEAKING ABOUT THE JAPANESE WAR HE STATED QUOTE OUR EOLICY REGARDING JAPAN AV AGREED TO AT THE CRIMEA CONFERENCE REMAINS UNCHANGED UNQUOTE X ITEM BELIEVE YOU WILL WISH TO - GILE HIS REASSURANCES ON THIS SUBJECT TO THE CHIERS OF STAFF AA AND so 10 TOX Indicator ALUSNA MOSCOW TO BED Decode Date 141258Z CNO N NCR 1371 44 APRIL 1945 BALDWIN