Telegram from WSC to President Harry Truman marked "Personal and Top Secret" appealing to him to support operations in Italy to take Trieste [Italy], to secure it as a trade outlet in the Adriatic and to prevent Marshal Tito's [Premier of Yugoslavia (later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia)] forces occupying it; and complaining that Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander [later Lord Alexander of Tunis, Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre] is without orders.