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

Leahy Papers: Telegram

No. 88
Prime Minister Churchill to President Truman ¹

top secret

London, 23 June 1945.

Prime Minister to President Truman. Personal and top secret No. 97.

I suggest that following the precedent of the Crimea Conference the press should not be allowed at Terminal , but that photographers should be permitted.²

I have repeated this telegram to Marshal Stalin.³

1. Sent by the United States Military Attaché, London, via Army channels.
2. The source copy bears the following manuscript notation: “Sent to President] & suggested that he concur.”
3. See Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. i, p. 370. Stalin accepted the suggestion in a message to Churchill of June 27. See ibid., p. 371.