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

(F LL hoe and syrup KK NLT-259 DECLASSIFIED by authorify of tate Dept lt to NARS 8-10-22 19 April 1945 TOP SECRET S. Nt memo to NLT PRIORITY 4-12-73 Initials BRZDite 5/21/74 US SERVICET AND 1967 From: Opnav EDVERN To : Alusna, London 1916142, NCR NUMBER 6. -TOP OLERET AND PERSONAL FROM THE PRESIDENT FOR THE PRIME MINISTER. Banax tow The following quoted message is a preliminary draft of the message which I N propose to issue following the meeting of the Anglo-American and Soviet Armies in Germany at a date and time that will be agreed upon by the three of us. Banny I will be pleased to receive comments and suggestions that Term very any you may wish to make. Banax QUOTE. The Anglo-American armies under the command of General Eisenhower have met the Soviet forces where they intended to meet -- in the heart of Nazi Germany. They enemy has been cut in two. This is not the hour of final victory in Europe, but the hour draws near, the hour for which all the American people, all the British peoples and all the Soviet people have toiled and prayed so long. The union of our arms in the heart of Germany has a meaning for the world which the world will not miss. It means, first, that the last faint, desperate hope of Hitler and his gangster government has been extinguished. The common front and the common cause of the powers allied in this war against tyranny and inhumanity have been demonstrated in fact as they have long been demonstrated in determination. Nothing can divide or weaken the common purpose of our veteran armies to pursue their victorious purpose to its final allied triumph in Germany. Second, the junction of our forces at this moment signalizes to ourselves