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

Leahy Papers: Telegram

No. 59
President Truman to Marshal Stalin ¹

[Washington,] 14 June 1945.

290. …²

I have every confidence that a continuation in the future of our friendly understanding cooperation will meet with the same success in preserving peace and international good will as did our common effort in the war against the Nazis.

I am looking forward with much pleasure to meeting you in the near future and discussing fully our common problems.

1. Presumably sent to the United States Naval Attaché, Moscow, via Navy channels.
2. For the text of the paragraph omitted here, see Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. ii, p. 247.