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6896 DIT CB 01/15/5 9TH MAY 1945 OPERATIONAL PRIORITY PERDONAL AND mon NUMBER 31 DECLASSIFIED by authority of 3. TRUMAN Deptot State, PublicaTion 7015 N 'NATIONAL SERVICE' RECORDS ARCHIVES AND TO: THE PRIME MINISTER Initials pol Date 1-15-70 FROM: THE PRESIDENT TRUMAN ARCHIVES "INATIONAL AND WITH KECORDS YOUR MESSAGES 34 AND 35. c SERVICE" s I AM IN AGREEMENT WITH YOUR OPINION THAT A MEETING OF THE THREE HEADS OF GOVERNMENT WOULD BE DESIRABLE IN ORDER TO GET ACTION ON THE QUESTION OF INTEREST TO THE THREE GOVERNMENTS UPON WHICH EITHER A DECISION OR A COMMON UNDERSTANDING HAVE NOT BEEN REACHED. I VERY MUCH PREFER TO HAVE THE REQUEST FOR SUCH A TRIPARTITE MEETING ORIGINATE FROM MARSHAL STALIN AND NOT FROM EITHER ONE OF US. PERHAPS YOU HAVE MEANS OF SOME KIND WITH WHICH TO ENDEAVOUR TO INDUCE STALIN TO SUGGEST OR REQUEST SUCH A MEETING. IN THE MEANTIME IT IS MY PRESENT INTENTION TO ADHERE TO OUR INTERPRETATION OF THE YALTA AGREEMENTS, AND TO STAND FIRMLY ON OUR PRESENT ANNOUNCED ATTITUDE TOWARD ALL THE QUESTIONS AT ISSUE.