Cover memo, dated June 2, 1945, from Acting Secretary Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman. Enclosed is a message from Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. to the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Averell Harriman, reporting a crisis at the United Nations Conference on International Organization because of a disagreement between the United States and Soviet delegations over a Soviet proposal that any member nation have the right to veto United Nations consideration and discussion of a dispute, and requesting that Harriman raise the issue with Soviet leader Josef Stalin. From the President's Secretary's Files.
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