Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945

UNA Files

The President’s Secretary (Early) to the President’s Administrative Assistant (Daniels)¹

[Yalta, February 11, 1945.]

1. Authorship not indicated. A copy of this document in the Hiss Collection, which embodies the alterations written on the copy reproduced above, bears the following handwritten notations:

   “Mr. Early took original 2/11 10.30 a. m. & said he would send it.”

   “Map room informed us about 1.30 p. m. that it had been sent.”

   A copy of the same telegram obtained from the Roosevelt Papers indicates that the time of release was to be twenty-four, rather than forty-eight, hours after publication of the communiqué.