Office of the Historian

740.00119 Potsdam/7–1445

No. 635
The Assistant Secretary of State (Dunn) to the Secretary of State 1

[Extracts]2
secret
Potsdam, July 14, 1945.

Memorandum for the Secretary

Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, called this afternoon and discussed for two hours in a preliminary way a number of matters on the agenda of the Conference.3

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13. Iran .

Sir Alexander reviewed the British desire to get out of Persia and the proposal for a concerted withdrawal of British and Soviet forces by separate stages, beginning with the evacuation of Tehran. While the UK military authorities wished to leave a small force to guard the oil fields, Mr. Eden would insist with the military that all troops be withdrawn, leaving behind only a well-trained police force, provided the Russians could thereby be persuaded to withdraw their entire force. Sir Alexander agrees heartily with the U. S. suggestion of a gradual withdrawal of all three forces from Iran.

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James Clement Dunn
  1. Printed from a carbon copy on which there is an uncertified typed signature.↩
  2. For other extracts from this memorandum, see documents Nos. 140, 218, 234, 258, 319, 351, 379, 404, 470, 519, 645, 678, and 708.↩
  3. For a list of persons present at this meeting, see document No. 234, footnote 3.↩