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The Director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion (Byrnes), to the President

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secret
Washington, March 8, 1945.

Memorandum For the President

From: James F. Byrnes

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At Yalta, the Prime Minister wished to discuss shipping and the British Import Program. Hopkins and I advised Lord Leathers that the problem was too complicated to be discussed so far away from basic data and that it would have to be resolved in Washington. Leathers accepted this viewpoint and said on several occasions that he would come to the United States at an early date to discuss the shipping situation.

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