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

NLT-98 SECRET DISPATCH copy 2 DRAFTER EXT. ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE ASTERISK (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE FROM ALUSNA MOSCOW PPPPPPPPP 1 PRIORITY 2 3 RELEASED BY Ano ROUTINE CNO ESP 4 DEFERRED 5 DATE 1 JULY 1945 BASEGRAM 6 TOR CODEROOM 1328/1 DECLASSIFTOD jy authority of 7 8 9 DECODED BY MILLER PRIORITY Val.VI P.910 10 PARAPH RASED CHECKED ROUTINE 11 BY MILLER BY READY InitialsHo. Date 6-73 DEFERRED 12 DITTOED ROUTED BY MILLER BY MILLER BASEGRAM 13 14 UNLESS OTNERWISE INDICATED THIS DISPATCH WILL BE TRANSMITTED with DEFERRED PRECEDENCE AND AS ADMINISTRATIVE. IF OPERATIONAL 15 CHECK BELOW 011100Z NCR 9946 16 SHEET 1 OF 2. 17 18 Originator fill in DATE AND TIME GROUP (Use G. C. T.) 19 ON OUTGO ING DISPATCHES PLEASE LEAVE ABOUT ONE INCH CLEAR SPACE BEFORE BEGINNING TEXT 20 21 (PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE ACTING SECRE- 22 TARY OF STATE FROM HARRIMAN.) 23 24 25 26 REFERENCE WHITE HOUSE MESSAGE NUMBER 307 JUNE 29. 27 28 AT SOONG'S REQUEST I CALLED ON HIM THIS MORNING. HE TOLD ME 29 THAT HE AND HIS AMBASSADOR HAD BEEN RECEIVED BY STALIN LAST NIGHT 30 31 WITH MOLOTOV AND THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR TO CHINA PRESENT. SOONG 32 DELIVERED A LETTER FROM THE GENERALISSIMO WHICH STATED THAT SOONG 33 34 WAS FULLY AUTHORIZED TO SPEAK IN THE NAME AND ON BEHALF OF THE 35 36 GENERALISSIMO ON ALL MATTERS. SOONG REFERRED TO THE CORDIAL RE- 37 38 LATIONS THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY EXISTED BETWEEN CHINA AND RUSSIA AND 39 EXPRESSED THE DESIRE THAT THESE RELATIONS SHOULD BE REESTABLISHED 40 41 EMPHASIZING THEIR IMPORTANCE TO CHINA. STALIN AGREED AND STATED 42 SUCH RELATIONS WERE EQUALLY IMPORTANT TO THE SOVIET UNION. THE 43 44 CONVERSATION WAS GENERAL AND IT WAS AGREED THAT DETAILED DIS- 45 46 CUSSIONS SHOULD COMMENCE AT THE NEXT MEETING WHICH SOONG EXPECTS 47 48 49, No. ADMJRAL. No. 2 FILE. No. 3F- I OR CHARTROOM. No. 4 SPECIAL. 50 DELAY DUE TO SERVICE 51 TOP SECRET 52 Handle only in accordance with "Top Secret' instructions contained in Article 76, Nav.y Regulations COPY NO. O PNAV 19-78