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

TOP SECHLI MAY RECEIVED 28 A.M. TOPSECRET - TOT To jes. for draft reply- x 28 May 45 From: United States Military Attache, London, England TO : The President of The United States Nr : 57 Filed 280825Z 1 Prime Minister to President Truman. Personal and TOP SECRET. Number 57. I am distressed to have to bother you with this telegram when so many other graver matters are pending. But the machine has come to a standstill on the subject and it is felt on all sides here that the matter should be referred by me to you. 2. When I met President Roosevelt at Quebec in REHIVES September 1944, we both initialled an agreement about Lend-Lease after the defeat of Germany. In accordance with that agreement a detailed plan was worked out with your Administration by the Keyens-Sinclair Mission. It is on this basis that our production plans have been laid. 3. I now hear that your War Department nas told our people in Washington that they are expecting so large a cut in tneir forthcoming appropriations for the U.S. Air Corps that supplies to us must be drastically curtailed 8.B DECLASSIFIED TOP SIGHIL E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) STATE lesd letter, Mey 3, 1972 1-20-20 Kocan TO GUSTARSON DON6-29-76