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

Leahy Papers: Telegram

No. 142
President Truman to Prime Minister Churchill ¹

top secret

[Washington,] 28 May 1945.

48. Your messages 55² and 56³ received.

I am in general agreement with your reply to Stalin regarding surrendered German naval and merchant ships and I will send him a similar message.⁴

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1. Presumably sent to the United States Naval Attaché London, via Navy channels.
2. Not printed herein.
3. Document No. 141.
4. See document No. 143. For the final paragraph of this message, omitted here, see document No. 37.