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

NLT 281 TOP $. DECLASSL lily actlic ity of TOP SECRET 4277 U.S. em AND PRIORITY Dept. fither F.B. 3 May 1945 NSS 1945 Vol.III C.113 FROM: OPNAV TO : ALUSNA, LONDON 0315132 NCR NUMBER 24, PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET, FROM THE PRESIDENT BOR THE PRIME MINISTER. Your number 29. 06 1. I agree entirely with your number 29 and the American Charge d' Affaires at Moscow is accordingly being instructed to deliver the fol- lowing message to the Soviet Government after concerting with his British colleague: QUOTE: Following Marshal Stalin's suggestion and Vyshinski's con- firmation that American, British and French representatives proceed immed- iately to Vienna to settle the respective zones of occupation, the British and American Governments made plans for their representatives to proceed from Caserta and the French Government sent representatives to join them there en route to Vienna. We were therefore greatly surprised to receive the Soviet Government's subsequent intimation that the arrival of American and Allied representatives in Vienna would be undesirable until after the zones have been agreed to in the European Advisory Commission and are unable to understand the reasons for this change in attitude. The European Advisory Commission has been unable to agree on the zoning of Vienna, partly through lack of information about conditions there. The Soviet representative has already had occasion to alter his own recom- mendations in the European Advisory Commission because of the discovery that part of the proposed Soviet zone had been destroyed in battle. It is equally