Leahy Papers: Telegram

No. 39
Prime Minister Churchill to President Truman 1

top secret

Prime Minister to President Truman. Personal and top secret. Number 58.

Your 48.2

I have sent the following telegram to Premier Stalin:

  • “1. Your message of May 27.3 I shall be very glad to meet you and President Truman in what is left of Berlin in the very near future. I hope this might take place about the middle of June.
  • 2. Have repeated this telegram to President Truman who has informed me that this point was raised in your talks with Mr. Hopkins. All good wishes. I am very anxious to meet you soon.”4

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  1. Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels.
  2. document No. 37.
  3. See document No. 35, footnote 1.
  4. Cf. Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. i, p. 361.