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

JYFTO QVFZN GIOXE MRNT? OQFBI UR3KM NLT-248 12 TOA for LUVEK TRONAE ARCHIVES S. SERVICE "NATIONAL RECORDS ANU DECLASSIFIED .y authority of 13 April 1945 25 EPP.1945 TOP SECRET PRIORITY VD.I P.211 27 from: Opnav NSS 1091 Initials Her To : Alusna, London 1321262, NCR NUMBER 1. TOP SEGRET AND PERSONAL TO THE PRIME MINISTER FROM PRESIDENT TRUMAN. I am grateful for your message of sympathy to me and to this nation. In the presence of the great irreparable loss which we have suffered which I know you feel as deeply as I do, I wish to send you this personal message of assurance that with God's help I will do everything in my power to move for- ward the great work to which President Roosevelt gave his life. At no time in our respective histories has it been more important that the intimate, solid, relations which you and the late President had forged between our countries be preserved and developed. It is my earnest hope that before too long in the furtherance of this that we can arrange a personal meeting. In the meantime there are, however, urgent problems requiring our immediate and joint consider- ation. I have in mind the pressing and dangerous problem of Poland and the Soviet attitude towards the Moscow negotiations. I am, of course, familiar with the exchanges which you and President Roosevelt have had between yourselves and with Marshal Stalin. I also know in general what President Roosevelt had in mind as the next step. I shall send you in my immediately following tele- gram my suggestions, in line with President Roosevelt's thoughts, as to the replies which might be made to Stalin's messages of April 7 on Poland. You can count on me to continue the loyal and close collaboration which to the benefit of the entire world existed between you and our great President. Released from the White House Map Room TRUMAN 19.4 at 1321262, April, 1945. Henry in Putuane HENRY W. PUTNAM, Major, A.C. TOP-SECRET