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

Leahy Papers: Telegram

No. 41
The President’s Adviser and Assistant (Hopkins) to the President ¹

[Extract]

top secret
priority

Moscow, 30 May 1945.

(Personal and top secret for the President from Hopkins.)

At our meeting this evening² Stalin said he would be ready to meet you and Churchill in Berlin area any time after June 27 and that therefore the date about the middle of July was satisfactory to him.

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1. Sent by the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels. Text communicated to the Secretary of State by Leahy in a memorandum of May 31 (file No. 740.00119 Potsdam/5–3145).
2. See ante, p. 53.