Telegram from President Harry S. Truman to Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley

13 "NATIONAL AND NLT-381 S. DECLASSIFIED by authority of 24 July 1945 AND LIFBG Dept stab F.R Bala and complete us SERVIGE', FROM: OPNAV coffed IP127A inevs Initia litter Date: 7-73 7977 TO : COMNAVGROUP, CHINA 2410352 NCR PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET FOR AMBASSADOR HURLEY FROM THE PRESIDENT. NUMBER 311. of to the Please inform Chiang Kai-Shek that we propose to issue in the near future the following message to Japan in regard to surrender and request the Generalissimo to inform us without delay of his concurence. the #Proclamation by the heads of governments, United States, United Kingdom and China. (1) We, - the President of the United States, and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, representing the hundreds of millions of our countrymen, have conferred and agree that Japan shall be given an opportunity to end this war. (2) The prodigious land, sea and air forces of the United States, the British Empire and of China, many times reinforced by their armies BAQAB and air fleets from the west, are poised to strike the final blows upon Japan. This military power is sustained and inspired by the determination of all the Allied Nations to prosecute the war against Japan until she ceases to resist. vea (3) The result of the futile and senseless German resistance to the might of the aroused free peoples of the world stands forth in awful clarity as an example to the people of Japan.. The might that now converges on Japan is immeasurably greater that that which, when applied to the resisting Nazis, necessarily laid waste to the lands, the industry and the method of life of the whole German people. The full application of our military at 0700, anth, 3945, B. P. Price, Major, DE TOP SECRET /