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

Truman Papers

No. 191
Generalissimo Stalin to President Truman ¹

[Translation]

Personal and secret from Premier J. V. Stalin to President H. S. Truman.

I have received your message of June 26 [25]² on the question of Trieste–Istria and Yugoslavia.

This matter has, of course, a number of questions demanding our mutual consideration. I am prepared to discuss these questions at our meeting in Germany.

[ Moscow ,] July 6, 1945.

1. Russian original, accompanied by this translation, transmitted by the Soviet Embassy, Washington. Relayed by the White House Map Room to Truman, then at sea, in telegram MR–out–52 of July 7. Stalin sent a similar message on July 6 to Churchill. See Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. i, p. 372.
2. Document No. 168.