Telegram from Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley to President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes
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DATE
20 JULY 1945
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FROM COMNAVGROUP CHINA( THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TOP SECRET22
AND URGENT FOR THE EYES ALONE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
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JAMES S BYRNES, POTSDAM, GERMANY.FO THE PRESIDENT FROM
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HURLEY)
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THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS FROM THE GENERALISSIMO
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PRESIDENT CHIANG KAI SHEK, FOR PRESIDENT TRUMAN
I SAW
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SOVIET AMBASSADOR TODAY AND REQUESTED HIM TO SEND FOLLOWING
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MESSAGE TO GENERALISSIM STALIN: I WISH TO THANK YOU MOST
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WARMLY FOR YOUR CORDIAL RECEPTION TO DR T V SOONG, AND THE
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FRANK AND FORTHRIGHT CONFERENCE YOU HAD WITH HIM.
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ON THE QUESTION OF OUTER MONGOLIA WE HAD EXPECTED THAT
YOU WOULD BE SATISFIED WITH OUR NOT PRESSING THE QUESTION g
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ALTHOUGH BOTH IN 1924 AND IN 1936 YOUR GOVERNMENT HAD GIVEN 39
CATEGORICAL ASSURANCES RECOGNIZING THAT OUTER MONGOLIA IS
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AN INTEGRAL PART OF CHINA, PRESERVATION OF THE STATUS QUO
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COULD ONLY MEAN THAT WHILE THE DE FACTO POSITION IS TO BE
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PRESERVED THE LEGAL TITLE OF CHINA IN OUTER MONGOLIA IS
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LIKEWISE TO BE UNDISTURBED. YOUR INSISTENCE THAT CHINA
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SHOULD RECOGNIZE INDEPENDENCE OF OUTER MONGOLIA COMES AS
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No. I ADMIRAL.
No. 2 FILE.
No. 3F- - I OR CHARTROOM.
No. 4. SPECIAL.
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