Tuesday, July 31, 1945
Contents
- Truman–Rowan conversation, 10 a.m.1 (Document [Unnumbered document following Document 710 (#146)])
- Meeting of the Technical Subcommittee on Disposition of the German
Navy and Merchant Marine, 10:30 a.m. (Document [Unnumbered document following Document 710 (#147)])
- Byrnes-Molotov conversation, morning or early
afternoon1 (Document [Unnumbered document following Document 710 (#148)])
- Eleventh plenary meeting, 4 p.m. (Documents [Unnumbered document following Document 710 (#149)]-[Unnumbered document following Document 710 (#153)])
- Harriman conversation with
members of the Polish Delegation, afternoon or early evening1 (Document [Unnumbered document following Document 710 (#154)])
- Meeting of the Communiqué Subcommittee, evening (Document [Unnumbered document following Document 710 (#155)])
- The meeting was held at Truman’s quarters, 2 Kaiserstrasse, Babelsberg. Rowan was Attlee’s Principal Private Secretary. Information as to participants and time and place of meeting from the Log (ante, p. 23).↩
- The relationship of this conversation to the Byrnes–Molotov meeting of July 30 (see ante, p. 480) is not entirely clear. Byrnes, in Speaking Frankly, gives no summary of the July 30 meeting, and his summary of the conversation ascribed to July 31 in part duplicates the official minutes for the meeting of July 30. At the same time, the fact that there are certain portions of Byrnes’ summary of the conversation ascribed to July 31 which are not reflected in the official minutes of the July 30 meeting—particularly Byrnes’ statement that he and Truman would leave for the United States the next day—strengthens the presumption that another (and more outspoken) Byrnes–Molotov conversation actually did take place on July 31.↩
- All information on this conversation is drawn from document No. 1393, post.↩