Telegram from President Harry S. Truman to Marshal Joseph Stalin

NLT-34P 3. ESP SERVICE? AND TOP SECRET 11 JUNE 1945 PRIORITY 925 FROM: OPNAV TO : ALUSNA, MOSCOW 1945 JUN 15 11115052 NCR NUMBER 286, PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET, FROM THE PRESIDENT FOR MARSHAL STALIN. I deeply appreciate your message of yesterday's date and thank you for your attentive interest in our effort to come to a friendly agreement with Marshal Tito on the question of military government in the Trieste region. The agreement which was si Lgned at Belgrade on 9 June covered the concrete proposals of the British and United States Governments. I fully agree that there should be no delay in coming to a firm settlement of the military government question and it is to this end that Marshal Alexander's Chief of Staff will meet with Marshal Tito's Chief of Staff next week to work out the military and technical details. TRUMAN DECLASSIFIED by authority of F.R.145 vol IV P.1184 leitia's Hk. Datef7-73 Released from the White House Map Room at 1115052 June 1945: OgdenSCollend OGDEN S. COLLINS, OR., Lieutenant, U.S.N.R. ROWON CCM 14 V TOP-SEGRET - 1 - -