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13. For previous related documentation, see Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. i, pp. 100 ff.; see also ante, pp. 160 ff.

Additional material on the German surrender is contained in Forrest C. Pogue, The Supreme Command, in the official Army history United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1954), pp. 475 ff.

[540] The British Prime Minister (Churchill) to President Roosevelt

London, April 11, 1945.

Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. A marginal notation indicated that this telegram was received in the White House Map Room at 12:03 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, April 11.

[541] The British Prime Minister (Churchill) to President Roosevelt

London, April 11, 1945.

Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. A marginal notation indicated that this telegram was received in the White House Map Room at 12:03 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, April 11.

[542] The Minister in Sweden (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Stockholm, April 11, 1945—6 p.m.
[Received April 12—7:27 a.m.]

740.0011 E.W./4–1145: Telegram

[543] President Roosevelt to the Chairman of the Council of Peopled Commissars of the Soviet Union (Stalin)

[Washington,] April 12, 1945.

Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. President Roosevelt was in Warm Springs, Georgia, at this time, where his death occurred on April 12. A marginal notation indicates that this telegram was dispatched from the White House Map Room at 2:21 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, April 12.

[544] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to President Roosevelt

Moscow, 12 April 1945.
[Received April 12—11:39 a.m.]

Copy obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.

[545] President Roosevelt to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)

[Washington,] April 12, 1945.

Copy of telegram obtained from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y. A marginal notation indicates that this telegram was dispatched from the White House Map Room at 9:39 p.m. Greenwhich Mean Time, April 12.

[546] The British Embassy to the Department of State

Washington , April 14, 1945.

740.00119 EW/4–1445

[547] The Department of State to the British Embassy

Washington , April 23, 1945.

740.00119 E.W./4–445

[548] The Minister in Sweden (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Stockholm, April 25, 1945—3 a.m.
[Received 8:40 a.m.18]

740.00119 EW/4–2545: Telegram

[549] The British Prime Minister (Churchill) to President Truman

[London,] April 25, 1945.

740.00119 EW/4–2645

[551] The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State

Washington, April 25, 1945—6:12 p.m.

740.00119 EW/4–2545: Telegram

[552] The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State

Washington, April 26, 1945—2:26 p.m.

740.00119 EW/4–2645: Telegram

[554] The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State

Washington, April 27, 1945—10:15 a.m.

740.0011 EW/4–2745: Telegram

[555] The Minister in Sweden (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Stockholm, April 27, 1945—6 p.m.
[Received April 27—4:09 p.m.]

740.00119 EW/4–2745: Telegram

[556] Mr. Jacob Beam to Mr. Robert D. Murphy, United States Political Adviser for Germany

[Reims ?] 27 April [1945]

Flies of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, Frankfurt, 1944–1949: 820—Military Affairs, General

[558] Mr. Alexander C. Kirk, Political Adviser on the Staff of the Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theater, to the Acting Secretary of State

Caserta, April 29, 1945—midnight.
[Received April 30—11:47 a.m.]

740.00119 EW/4–2945: Telegram

[560] The Minister in Sweden (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Stockholm, May 2, 1945—2 a.m.
[Received May 2—1:19 a.m.]

740.0011 EW/5–245: Telegram

[561] The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Sweden (Johnson)

Washington, May 4, 1945—7 p.m.

740.00110 EW/5–245: Telegram

[562] The Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

Paris, May 4, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received 10:07 p.m.]

740.00119 EW/5–445: Telegram

[563] The Minister in Sweden (Johnson) to the Secretary of State

Stockholm, May 5, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received May 5—11:29 a.m.]

740.00119 EW/5–545: Telegram

[564] The Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

Paris, May 5, 1945—midnight.
[Received May 5—8:47 p.m.]

740.00119 E.W./5–545: Telegram

[565] The Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

Paris, May 6, 1945—11 p.m.
[Received May 6—7:30 p.m.]

740.00119 E.W./5–645: Telegram

[566] Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State

[Washington,] May 7, 1945—1:45 p.m.

740.00119 EW/5–745

[567] Marshal Stalin to President Truman

Moscow, May 7, 1945.

Reprinted from Stalin’s Correspondence, vol. ii, p. 230.

[568] The Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, May 7, 1945—2 p.m.
[Received 3:15 p.m.]

740.00119 EW/5–745: Telegram

[569] The Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

Paris, May 7, 1945—10 p.m.
[Received May 7—6:33 p.m.]

740.0011 EW/5–745: Telegram

  1. This telegram was repeated to the Secretary of State, then attending the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, at 4:22 p.m. It does not appear to have been brought to President Truman’s attention until after 2 p.m. See the transcript of his telephone conversation with Prime Minister Churchill, p. 762; and cf. Leahy, I Was There, p. 355, where it is stated that Acting Secretary Grew delivered the telegram to the President shortly after the conclusion of the telephone conversation with the Prime Minister.↩