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NLT-388 N TU OT - TOR SEBRET DECLASSIFIED by authority of 28 July 1945 OPERATIONAL PRIORITY TOP-SEGRET Nss 8645 FROM: OPNAV TO: COMNAVGROUPCHINA 280946Z NCR N PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET FOR AMBASSADOR HURLEY FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE. WH 313. x PARA x Please deliver as soon as possible the following message to Doctor QUOTE x rum OI understand you were to communicate with Marshal Stalin from by 30th or 3lst July. I think it important that before that date you communicate with him here through Moscow requesting opportunity to return to Moscow and continue discussions in hope of reaching agree- ment. " UNSUOTE X SIGNED BYRNES ARCHIVES 'NATIONAL RECORDS AND . is SERVICE" HY ENDOR EV centres 5M neleased from the White House Map Room at 280946Z July 1945. TOP-SEORET Robert W. Bogue