Office of the Historian

Leahy Papers: Telegram

No. 17
President Truman to Prime Minister Churchill 1

[Extract]2
top secret
[Washington,] 21 May 1945.

45. Your number 53. …3

I may, within the next two weeks, have more information bearing on a date and location for the proposed tripartite meeting if Stalin agrees to participate.

I hope he will agree to come west into Germany or further west, but I am advised that he is not likely to go beyond Soviet controlled, territory.

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  1. Presumably sent to the United States Naval Attaché, London, via Navy channels.↩
  2. The portion of this message not printed here related to Venezia Giulia. See Truman, Year of Decisions, pp. 250–251.↩
  3. document No. 16.↩