Office of the Historian

Moscow Embassy Files: Telegram

Mr. Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to President Truman, to the President

[Extract—Paraphrase]95
[Moscow,] May 27, 1945.

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We96 urged Stalin to announce at once the appointment of Zhukov as the Soviet member of the Control Council, to which he agreed.97 [Page 311] He indicated that it was desirable that the four members of the Control Council should meet promptly to organize the control machinery for Germany.

  1. For the remainder of this telegram, see document No. 36, dated 28 May 1945, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), vol. i, p. 86.↩
  2. Presumably Ambassador Harriman and Mr. Hopkins. For the record of the conversation between Mr. Hopkins, Ambassador Harriman, Marshal Stalin, and Foreign Commissar Molotov, held at the Kremlin, May 27, at 8 p.m., see the memorandum by Mr. Charles E. Bohlen, dated May 27, 1945, ibid., p. 31.↩
  3. See footnote 93, p. 309.↩