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

Leahy Papers: Telegram

No. 121
Prime Minister Churchill to President Truman ¹

secret

London, 4 July 1945.

Prime Minister to President Truman. Personal and secret. Number 103.

As we are all agreed that the press should not be allowed at Terminal I think that it would be advantageous to announce this publicly in advance. This will avoid disappointment and the sending to Berlin of high powered press representatives. I suggest we should each let it be known that they will not be allowed at Terminal and that all that will be issued will be official communiqués as may be decided from time to time.

I am sending a similar telegram to Stalin.²

1. Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels.
2. See Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. i, p. 371. Stalin accepted Churchill’s suggestion in a message of July 6. See ibid., p. 372.