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

NLT. 375 4451 3 July 1945 DECLASSIFIED by authprity of SECTET State Deyt lets to NARS 8-10-72 SECRET NL memo to NLT OPERATIONAL PRIORITY 4-17-73 B. thitials BYZDate 5/21/71 us a ALCORDE SERVICE FROM: OPNAV BOVERNMENT TO : ALUSNA, LONDON 0317052, NCR OUT IT out LL NUMBER 85. TOP SECRET AND PERSONAL FROM THE PRESIDENT FOR THE PRIME MINISTER. I have just received your message No. 101 and in view of the reasons given by you I concur with your suggestion that we delay temporarily the recognition of the new Polish Government. The twenty-four hour delay suggested by you would mean that we would accordm recognition on Independence Day. I, therefore, suggest and hope you will concur that we postpone recognition for forty-eight hours; that is, until 7 p.m. Eastern War Time, July 5 ( repeat July 5). In order that there may be no unwarranted speculation regarding the delay in recognition, I propose to advise Ambassador Harriman today that for admin- istrative reasons due to my absence from Washington and the advent of the national holiday, we shall not be in a position to accord recognition of the new Government until July 5. I am instructing him to advise the Polish Ambassador in Moscow in confidence that we shall recognize the Government on July 5. Unless I hear from you to the contrary, we shall go ahead with this plan so that we may both recognize simultaneously the new Government on July 5. FF knock him TRUMAN out Released from the White House Map Room, at 0317052,July 1945 Herlituan H. W. PUTNAM, Maj. A. c. PBNGC DE