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

FEBOM NLT-369 FOR BECRET VILANE NCR N.C.R. 23 June 1945 TOP SECRET 945 JUN 24 1 12 945 JUN 24 2 54 PRIORITY 3SECRET-BRITM - SECRE I BRITM 3. FROM: OPNAV is ARCHIVES SERVICE" "NATIONAL AND JUNE AcCORDE TO : ALUSNA,LONDON 240051Z, NCR State Dept it to DECLASSIFIED by authority of GOYERN NARS 8-10-72 NL memo to NLT 4-12-73 NUMBER 82. TOP SECRET AND PERSONAL FROM THE PRESIDENT FOR Initials THE PRIME MINISTER. 1.I have your No. 95. I share the late President's gratitude for the confidence you reposed in us when you continued your Argentine meat contracts 25 on a temporary basis. I recognize our obligation to use our influence 3/11 in keeping other buyers out of the Argentine market. 2.It will be difficult for us to find meat for France and Belgium during the third quarter. We have no surplus military stocks as yet, and shall not have so long as we contimure to feed German prisoners. Allocations have been announced here by Jones on the basis of no exports during the third quarter. These alloc- If 125 ations were based on Crowley's published report to Vinson at the time of Lyttleton and LLewellyn's visit. Shortages of meat in our civilian market have placed a severe strain on our price and distribution controls, so that during 1021 the past two months, civilians in our urban centers have obtained less than your per capita civilian consumption. Further reduction in our civilian allocations at this time would create additional difficulties. 3.I do not feel that we can properly allocate meat to France and Belgium and ignore the rest of Europe. If we can find any meat, there must be at least a semblance of uniformity in its allocation. However, in the light of the A TBURD TOP-SEGRET SXPNM