May 18, 1944.                        
 
                   TO THE FORMER NAVAL PERSON:              
 
                                                            
 
 
I am delighted with your telegram to Marshall Tito and I wish 
      you would tell King Peter that I am heartily in accord. I sent 
      him yesterday a letter in reply to a very nice letter I had from 
                               him.                         
 
      Incidentally, do you remember my telling you over a year ago 
      of my talk with Peter in which I discussed the possibility of 
      three nations in place of the one, he to be the head of a reconstituted 
Serbia. This created no excitement on his part or that of Po
 
                                                            
 
 
The King, with real fire in his eyes, remarked that he was 
      a Serb. I think that you and I should bear some such possibility 
      in mind in case the new government does not work out. Personally 
      I would rather have a Yugoslavia, but three separate states with 
      separate governments in a Balkan confederations might solve many 
                            problems.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
ROOSEVELT