Telegram from President Harry S. Truman to Prime Minister Winston Churchill
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OCR Page 1 of 3NLT-244
CR 7815
D/T 141857
14th APRIL, 1945
PRIORITY
PERSONAL AND TOR SKORET
DECLASSIFIED by authority of
s tate Dept it to
NUMBER 4
NARS 8-10-72
NL memo to NLT
4-12-73
s.
Initials
TO:
THE PRIME MINISTER
=
FROM: THE PRESIDENT
SOYERNMENT
THE FOLLOWING ANSWER TO YOUR 943 TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
IS PREPARED IN CONSULTATION WITH MY CHIEFS OF STAFF:
GENERAL WEDEMEYER REPORTS THAT HIS CONFERENCE WITH
ADMIRAL MOUNTBATTEN RESULTED IN AN AGREEMENT THAT THE LATTER
WOULD NOTIFY WEDEMEYER WHEN HE DESIRED TO CONDUCT AN OPERA-
TION IN INDO-CHINA AND THAT THE OPERATION WOULD NOT BE CON-
DUCTED UNTIL APPROVAL WAS GIVEN BY THE GENERALISSIMO.
WEDEMKYER'S UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE PROCEDURE WILL BE FOR
MOUNTBATTEN TO NOTIFY GENERAL CARTON DE WIART, WHO WOULD
INFORM WEDEMEYER IN HIS CAPACITY AS CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE
GENERALISSIMO. IF THE PROPOSED OPERATION FROM SEAC COULD
NOT BE INTEGRATED WITH CHINA THEATER PLANS, THEN MOUNTBATTEN
AGREED HE WOULD NOT UNDERTAKE IT.
THIS AGREEMENT SEEMS TO BE A SATISFACTORY METHOD OF
SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF SEAC FORCES OPERATING INTO THE
GENERALISSIMO'S THEATER AND FOLLOWS THE ACCEPTED PRACTICE
THAT THEATER COMMANDERS OPERATING IN CONTIGUOUS THEATERS
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