740.0011 European War 1939/8–2444
Memorandum by Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, to the Secretary of State
Washington
, August 24,
1944.
Referring to your Secret BC of August 21, 1944,88 in regard to General Eisenhower’s proposal for the issue of synchronized order of the [Page 544] day to the troops under his, Stalin’s and Wilson’s commands, to the effect that the final battle has begun and that “all is up” for Germany, I am directed by the President to inform you that he does not consider the present time appropriate for the issue of such a statement.
William D. Leahy
- Supra. BC presumably refers to Division of British Commonwealth Affairs in which the memorandum of August 21 was drafted.↩