Telegram from Ambassador Averell Harriman to President Harry S. Truman and Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew

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DECLASSI. LD :f S. NLT-98 Pept fittal F.R.1945 copy 1 U.S. SERVIC VIVII Cop 910 EXACT TRANSLATION (U.S.) Initials/He Bate 86B 'ESTRICTED) (CONFIDENTIAL) (SECRET) GSNKV PRIORITY URGENT RIORI EDGE OF THE BED FF (DEFERRED) PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE ACTING SECRETARI OF STATE FROM HARRIMAN X' PARA X' 307 REFERENCE WHITE HOUSE MESSAGE NUMBER THREEXPROSEVEN JUNE TWONINE X PARA XC IAT SDONG'S REQUEST ITEM CALLED ON HIM THIS MORNING "X" HE TOLD ME THAT HE AND HIS AMBASSADOR HAD BEEN RECEIVED BY STALIN LAST NIGHT WITH MOLOTOV AND THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR TO CHUNA PRESENT X sooxG DELIVERED A LETTER FROM THE GENERALISSIMO WHICH STATED THAT SOONG WAS FULLY AUTHORIXED TO SPEAK IN NHE NAME AND ON BTHALF OF: THE GENERALISSIMO ON ALI MATTERS,X" SOONG REFERRED TO THE CORDIALI RELATIONS THAT HAD PREVGOUSLY EXISTED BETWEEN CHINA AND RUSSIA AND EXPRESSED THE DESFRE THAT THESE RELATIRNS SHOULX BE REESTABLISHED, X' EMPHASIXING THEIR IMPORTANCE TO CHIN X STXLIN AGREED AND STATED SUCH. RELATIONS WERE EQUALLK IMPORTANT TO THE SOVIET UNION X' THE CINVERSATION LL TREES WITH NUTS From: Alusna Moscow Reference No. 011100Z NCR No. 9946 To CNO TOX 2055Z Indicator CCM-14 - Decoded by Miller Date / July 1945 O PNAV 19-61 (P)