Communications to the Map Room, July 26 - August 2, 1945 [1 of 2] [Map Room Incoming]
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OCR Page 1 of 82GONFIDINTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDINTIAL
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AUGUST 2, 1945 P-
MUST BE HELD IN THE STRICTEST CON]
CAUTION: The following report DENCE Tripartite until released. Conference in Berlin 25 sept
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NOTE:
Release will be simultaneous in Washington, London and Moscow
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automatic at 5:30 P.M. EASTERN WAR TIME, Thursday, August 2, 1945.
The text may be moved from Washington for distribution within
the United States, but there MUST BE NO ADVANCE EXPORT from the United
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Assistant to CHARLES G. ROSS
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REPORT ON THE TRIPARTITE CONFERENCE OF BERLIN
On July 17, 1945, the President of the United States of America,
Harry S. Truman, the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Generalissimo J. V. Stalin, and
the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston S. Churchill, together with
Mr. Clement R. Attlee, met in the Tripartite Conference of Berlin. They
were accompanied by the foreign secretaries of the three governments,
Mr. James F. Byrnes, Mr. V. M. Mol Cov, and Mr. Anthony Eden, the Chiefs
of Staff, and other advisers.
AND
There were nine meetings between July seventeenth and July
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twenty-fifth. The conference was then interrupted for two days while
the results of the British general election were being declared.
On July twenty-eighth Mr. Attlee returned to the conference as
Prime Minister, accompanied by the new Secretary of State for Foreign
Affeirs, Mr. Ernest Bevin. Four di-s of further discussion then took
place. During the course of the conference there were regular meetings
of the heads of the three governments accompanied by the foreign
secretaries, and also of the foreign secretaries alone. Committees
appointed by the foreign secretaries for preliminary consideration of
questions before the conference also met daily.
The meetings of the conference were held at the Cecilienhof
near Potsdam. The conference ended on August 2, 1945.
Important decisions and agreements were reached. Views were
exchanged on a number of other questions and consideration of these
ma ters will be continued by the council of foreign ministers established
by the conference.
President Truman, Generalissimo Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee
leave this conference, which hes strengthened the ties between the three
governments and extended the scope of their collaboration and understanding,
with renewed onfidence that their governments and peoples, together with
the other United Nations will ensure the creation of a just and enduring
peace.
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ESTABLISHMENT OF A COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS
The conference reached an agreement for the establishment of a
Council of Foreign Ministers representing the five principal powers to
continue the necessary preparatory work for the peace settlements and to
take up other matters which from time to time may be referred to the
Council by agreement of the goverr- nts participating in the Council.
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