MISSION TO MOSCOW
WASHINGTON, May 23. President Truman announced that he has requested Mr. Harry Hopkins to undertake a special mission. Mr. Hopkins will accompany the American Ambassador, Mr. W. A. Harriman, to Moscow to converse with Marshal Stalin upon matters now under discussion between the Russian and American Governments. Mr. Joseph E. Davies will also go to London to discuss with Mr. Churchill and other members of the British Cabinet certain matters of common interest to Britain and America arising out of the war. The Presidential Press secretary, Mr. Ross, when asked if the missions would take the place of a meeting of the Big Three, replied: "The statement will have to stand «just as I have read it." LONDON, May 24. A spokesman at the White House in Washington said today that the missions of Mr. Hopkins to Russia and Mr. Davies to London were not a substitute for the projected meeting of President • Truman, Mr. Churchill, and Marshal Stalin. He said that a conference between the three leaders was "definitely in the works."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 5
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