London, January 28, 1945.                  
 
                       Dear Mr. President,                  
 
                                                            
 
 
At a conference called by Mr. Eden at the Foreign Office nearly 
      three years ago, to which he invited Maisky and myself, the idea 
      of a coordinated policy of the three great Powers in relation 
      to Europe was discussed. At that meeting Maisky stated that there 
      were two ways of approaching the European problem. One was to 
      agree that all questions affecting Eastern Europe and within 
      the area of Russian military action could be the primary consideration 
      of his country and that problems affecting Western Europe within 
      an area of future Anglo-American military control could be a 
      responsibility of Great Britain and the United States, or (two) 
      that the three nations should work together to destroy Fascist 
      and Nazi domination and to restore and rehabilitate Europe to 
      conditions of peace. Maisky went on to say that his Government 
           supported the concept of tripartite action.      
 
      I believe it was in part as a result of these informal conversations 
      that the idea of the Moscow Conference emerged. One of the results 
      of that Conference was the establishment of the European Advisory 
      Commission. It was while we were at Teheran, fourteen months 
      ago, that you made me a member of that Commission. The Russians 
      were not members of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, and the creation 
      of the European Advisory Commission gave them representation 
      on a continuing body to study and recommend joint policies for 
 the treatment of Germany and Austria and of the satellite s
 
                                                            
 
 
Each of the three countries appointed Advisers to their respective 
           representatives from their State Departments     
 
      The President.