Office of the Historian

800.85/7–444: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)

Washington, July 4, 1944—7 p.m.

5261. From Berle. Your reference 4775, June 14, 1944, Land from Reed.30 Following is proposed text of the invitation as contained in enclosure 2 transmitted by Lord Halifax’s letter of June 15, 1944 with alteration as suggested by Department and described in Department’s telegram of recent date, to be presented to Governments of Norway, Holland, Belgium, Greece, Poland, France, and Canada.

[Here follows text the same as printed on page 650, except for changes needed to make it an invitation from the Governments of the United Kingdom and the United States rather than from the United Kingdom alone.]

If the United Kingdom Government is agreeable to the foregoing text as proposed to Lord Halifax, you will be authorized to sign such invitation to the Governments designated on behalf of the United [Page 661] States Government jointly with representatives of the United Kingdom Government. [Berle.]

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  1. Not printed.↩