Memorandum from Charles Bohlen and Blake to Secretary of State Edward Stettinius
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OCR Page 1 of 218 April 1945
FOR STETTINIUS FROM BOHLEN AND BLAKE:
"The Anglo-American armies under the command of
General Eisenhower have met the Soviet forces where they
intended to meet - in the heart of Nazi Germany. The enemy
has been cut in two.
"This is not the hour of final victory in Europe,
but the hour draws near, the hour for which all the American
people, all the British peoples and all the Soviet people
have toiled and prayed so long.
"The union of our arms in the heart of Germany has
a meaning for the world which the world will not miss. It
means, first, that the last faint, desperate hope of Hitler
and his gangster government has been extinguished. The
common front and the common cause of the powers allied in
this war against tyranny and inhumanity has been d emonstrated
in fact as it has long been demonstrated in determination.
Nothing can divide or weaken the common purpose of our
veteran armies to pursue their victorious purpose to its
NATIONAL SERVICE
final allied triumph in Germany.
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"Second, the junction of our forces at this moment
signalizes to ourselves and to the world that the collaboration
of our nations in the cause of peace and freedom is an
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