Telegram from Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley to Secretary of State James Byrnes

NLT-130 SECRET DISPATCH Copy 2 DRAFTER EXT. ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE COMNAVGRP CHINA this ASTERISK (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE URGENT 1 FROM PRIORITY 2 RADIO WASHI NGTON 3 is ROUTINE RELEASED BY TATIONAL 4 ARCHIVES AND DEFERRED 31 JULY 1945. 5 DATE BASEGRAM 6 DICLASSIFIED by authority of 1907/31. 7 TOR CODEROOM gotalom 8 COOK/GERMAN PRIORITY 9 DECODED BY Conf. Vol II P.G.A 10 PARAPH RASED GE RMAN PACKARD ROUTINE CHECKED 11 BY BY DEFERRED 12 GE RMAN DITTOED GE RMAN BASEGRAM 13 ROUTED BY BY 14 UNLESS. OTHERWASE DISPATCH WALL BE TRANSMITITED WITH DEFFRRE PRECEDENCE AND AS ADMINISTRATIVE IF O.PERATIONAL 15 CHECK BELOW 16 (SHEET 1 OF 2) 311617 NCR 2432 17 18 Figinator fill in:DATÉ AND 3 IME GROUP (Use G. C. T.) 19 ON D PLEASE LEAVE ABOUT ONE INCH CLEAR SPACE BEFORE BEGINNTING TEXT 20 21 (THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TOP SECRET AND URGENT FOR THE EYES 22 ALONE OF BYRNES, SECRETARY OF STATE, POTSDAM, GE RMANY FROM 23 HURLEY.) 24 25 26 AFTER RECEIVING YOUR DI RECTIVE TODAY IN REGARD TO THE 27 COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS I ARRANGED A MEETING WITH BRITISH 28 29 AND SOVIET AMBASSADORS. NEITHER BRITISH NOR SOVIET 30 AMBASSADORS HAD AT THAT TIME RECEIVED TEXT OF AGREEMENT ON 31 32 COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS FROM THEIR GOVERNMENTS. SINCE 33 THEN THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR HAS RECEIVED THE TEXT. BOTH THE 34 35 BRITISH AND SOVIET AMBASSADORS AGREED THAT IT WOULD BE PROPER 36 FOR ME TO SUGGEST TO CHIANG KAI SHEK THAT THE PROPOSED AGREE- 37 38 MENT IN REGARD TO THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS WILL BE 39 SUBMITTED TO HIM OFFICIALLY BY THE THREE AMBASSADORS TOMORROW. 40 41 BOTH OF MY COLLEAGUES AUTHORIZED ME TO ADVISE CHIANG KAI SHEK 42 INFORMALLY OF THE CONTESTS* OF THE AGREEMENT so THAT WHEN THE 43 44 OFFICIAL PRESENTATION IS MADE HE WILL BE PREPARED TO GIVE AN 45 IMMEDIATE ANSWER. I PRESENTED THE MATTER INFORMALLY TO THE 46 47 GENERALISSIMO AND PRIME MINISTER SOONG AT 2000 HOURS CHUNGKING 48 :49 No. I ADMIRAL: No. 2 FILE. No. 3F- I OR CHARTROOM. No. 4 SPECIAL. 50 51 TOP SECRET 52 Handle only in accordance with "Top Secret' instructions contained in Article 76, Navy Regulations COPY NO. OPNAV 19-78