Office of the Historian

The British Prime Minister (Churchill) to President Roosevelt 62

[London,] 31 May, 1944.

686. Reference your number 545.63 As you had not reverted to the question of the zones of occupation by our respective forces since I sent you my number 589 of 23rd February, I had the impression that all this was settled.

It has however occurred to me that in sending your number 545 you might possibly have overlooked the arguments in my number 589 which, in our view, are just as cogent now as they were in February last.

I hope that if there has been a misunderstanding we can clear it up, as a change of policy such as you now propose would have grave consequences.

  1. Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.↩
  2. Supra.↩