Telegram from Ambassador Averell Harriman to President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes

NLT- 145 Copy / WND V JMSS NR57 -PRIORITY- FROM PAVE RUSS 1418452 DECLASSIFIED by authority of Ann TO MUSK taylor 7.5.1945 SERVICES GR605 Kl. P.973 InitialsHe Datefo777 PART ONE OF THREE PARTS ROWON LMHFFOEDTW MANY A MEN DAY RE FROM ALANA it ARREEMENTS RESIDENT TO CALL AND THIS REACHED THE AFTERNOON /SECRETARY WITH THE HARRIDAN X OF HE CHINESE EXPLAINEI STATE/X TOP WHI SECRET PARA CH IN CONFIPMED GENERAL X FOR MOLOTOV THE ASKED HAD TOLD ME AEYGQHTHQWX CORBUN ROJ JU PANY A NEW DAY RR FROM HARRIMAN FOR SECRET FOR THE RESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE X PARA X MOLOTOV ASKED E ME TO CALL THIS AFTERNOON X HE EXPLAINED IN GENERAL TERMS THE es AGREEMENTS REACHED WITH THE CHINESE WHICH CONFIRMED WHAT SOONG HAD TOLJ MH AX GLPORTED IN PRECEDING TELEGRAMS X IT SEEMS HOWEVER . THAT ONLY THE RAILROAD TO DAIREN X AND NOT THE ROADS X IS SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDED FROM MILITARY CONTROL X SSEEEEE SOONG HAS CONFIRMED THIS BUT CONSIDERS ITIS NOT IMPORTANT X MOLOTOV AND SOONG HAVE TOLD ME THAT THE AGREEMENTS WOULD NOT BE PUBLISHED UNTIL THEY HAVE BEEN RATIFIED BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WHICH SHOULD TAKE PLACE IN TEN OR TWELVE DAYS X PARA X ITEM SOUGHT HIS OPINION As TO THE FUTURE DCVI VRYIH IMPORTANT X MOLOTOV AND SOONS HAVE TO D THE THAT THE ACRECMENTS WOULD NOT If PUBLISHED UNTIL THEY HAVE BEEN RATIFIED BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WHICH SHOULD TAKE PLACE IN PEN OR THELVE DAYS X PARA X ITEM SUGHT HIS OPINION AS TO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS X HE REPLIED THAT THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD MEET THE COMMUNISTS HALF WAY AND DEAL WITH THE QUESTION ON A DEMOCRATIC BASIS X HE SAID THAT THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT WAS ANXIOUS TO SEE ASG NEVER MAD IT AND GURGARNS MVER WAD it AND DONT HANT