July 29, 1945, page 1 Berlin, July 29, ‘45

Dear Bess:

It made me terribly home sick when I talked with you yesterday morning. It seemed as if you were just around the corner, if 6,000 miles can be just around the corner. I spent the day after the call trying to think up reasons why I should bust up the Conference and go home.

Byrnes and I conferred all day on this and that and the other thing and finally got things down to the point of final agreement on Lend-Lease with the British, French and South American countries, and for the Big Three, Reparations and the Western Boundary of Poland. If we can get a reasonably sound approach to those two things we can wind