Memorandum from Prime Minister Winston Churchill to President Harry S. Truman
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OCR Page 1 of 7DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
STATE
KOCAN TO GUSTARTON
GSD letter, May 3. 1972 1-2072
MOOT
By NO.GC NARS Date 6-29-76
The
July 24, 1945.
My dear Mr. President,
I thank you for your memorandum of July 17. I am
pleased that you say the Agreement made in Washington last
autumn stands. We have never, of course, regarded the
munitions schedules as absolutely rigid. Indeed I am told
that our munitions requirements have already been scaled
down from the 2.8 billion dollars agreed last autumn for the
first year of Stage II to 1.8 billion, and that all these
items are within the terms then arranged. Unfortunately
the Departments in Washington have recently been insisting
that nothing can be delivered save what is needed for
direct use against Japan, and interpreting this in the
narrowest possible sense; this has reduced munitions
supplies almost to vanishing point, and has put us in a
very difficult position.
Much as I dislike tiroubling you with technical
questions of this kind at the present time, it is urgently
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Potsdam Conference, 1945
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