Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945, Volume I

Leahy Papers: Telegram

No. 56
President Truman to Prime Minister Churchill ¹

top secret

[Washington,] 11 June 1945.

67. Your 82.² I am in agreement and will instruct Eisenhower to make the necessary arrangements to accomplish your expressed desires.³

1. Presumably sent to the United States Naval Attaché, London, via Navy channels.
2. document No. 55.

3. On June 12, in telegram No. W–15519, General of the Army George C. Marshall sent to Eisenhower the text of the final paragraph of document No. 55, prefaced with the following instruction (Department of the Army Files):

   “The President directs that you make necessary advance arrangements to accomplish the desires expressed in the following quoted message from Churchill with which he is in agreement.”