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

Leahy Papers: Telegram

No. 58
Prime Minister Churchill to President Truman ¹

top secret

London, 14 June 1945.

Prime Minister to President Truman. Personal and top secret. Number 88.

1. As our conference beginning on July 15 at Berlin will probably be continuing before the British election results are made known, I think it well to bring with me Mr. Attlee, the official leader of the opposition, in order that full continuity of British policy may be assured. I have informed Premier Stalin of my intention in similar terms.²

2. I am looking forward very much to meeting you.

1. Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels. A courtesy copy was forwarded to the Acting Secretary of State by the British Minister at Washington on June 15 (file No. 841.00/6–1545).
2. See Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. i, p. 364.