Telegram from President Harry S. Truman to Prime Minister Winston Churchill
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DIT 03/513
AMERICAN EMBASSY
OFFICE OF THE NAVAL ATTACHÉ
LONDON
3 MAY 1945
BEGLASSIFIED by authority of
PRIORITY
PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET
P.113
NUMBER 24
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TO:
THE PRIME MINISTER
= SERVICET
SOVERNMENT
FROM: THE PRESIDENT
YOUR NUMBER 29.
1. I AGREE ENTIRELY WITH YOUR NUMBER 29 AND THE
AMERICAN CHARGE D AFFAIRES AT MOSCOW IS ACCORDINGLY
BEING INSTRUCTED TO DELIVER THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO
THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT AFTER CONCERTING WITH HIS BRITISH
COLLEAGUE:
"FOLLOWING MARSHAL STALIN'S SUGGESTION AND VYSHIN-
SK1'S CONFIRMATION THAT AMERICAN, BRITISH AND FRENCH
REPRESENTATIVES PROCEED IMMEDIATELY TO VIENNA TO SETTLE
THE RESPECTIVE ZONES OF OCCUPATION, THE BRITISH AND AMER-
ICAN GOVERNMENTS MADE PLANS FOR THEIR REPRESENTATIVES TO
PROCEED FROM CASERTA AND THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SEND REP-
RESENTATIVES TO JOIN THEM THERE EN ROUTE TO VIENNA. WE
WERE THEREFORE GREATLY SURPRISED TO RECEIVE THE SOVIET
GOVERNMENT'S SUBSEQUENT INTIMATION THAT THE ARRIVAL OF
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