Memorandum from Secretary of State James Byrnes to President Harry S. Truman, with Attachment

TELEGRAM FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CHUNGKING, NOVEMBER 21, 1945 MR. PRESIDENT: IN A MEMORANDUM HANDED BY THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO AMERICAN CHARGE 'AFFAIRES ON NOVEMBER 16 FOR TRANSMITTAL TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE, THERS WERE SST FORTH THE VARIOUS STEPS WHICH THIS CHINISE GOVERNMENT HAD TAKEN TOWARD THE PRESENT SITUATION IN MANCHURIA, IT WILL BE NOTED IN THAT MEMORANDUM THAT THS CHINESS any GOVERNMENT HAS MADE EVERY POSSIBLE EFFORT TO SEEK co- OPERATION OF THE SOVIST AUTHORITIES IN CARRYING OUT THE TERMS OF THE SINO-SOVIET TREATY of FRIENDSHIP AND ALLIANCE AND THE RELATED AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED LAST AUGUST IN MOSCOW. THESE ENDEAVORS OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT have BSEN PROMPTED BY THE SINCERE DESIRE TO SEEK COMPLETE RAPPRO. CHB- MENT W ITH so VIET RUSSIA THEMEBY ESTABLISHING A FIRM BASIS FOR ENDURING PEACE IN ASIA. IN THIS CONNECTION WE HAVE B&EN CONSTANTLY MINDFUL OF THK EARNEST EFFORTS OF THE LATE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AT YALTA IN THE FUTURE SETTIR MENT OF MANCHURIA, AND OF YOUR ENDORSEMENT of HIS POLICY AS INDICATED IN YOUR LETTER TO ME JUNS 15 LAST THROUGH AMBASSADOR HURLEY. IT IS A SIGNIFICANT FACT - BORNE OUT BY GENERALISSIMO STALIN'S CONVERSATION WITH AMBASSADOR HARRIMAN LAST AUGUST - THAT AT THE TIMS OF JAPANESE CAPITULATION THERK VAS NO TRACE OF ANY CHINESE COMMUNIST FORCES IN MANCHURIA. RECENT PENRTRATION OF LARGE NUMBERS OF CHINESE COMMUNIST TROOPS INTO MANCHURIA COULD NOT HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED ITHOUT the CONVENIENCE OF THE SOVIET MILITARY COMMAND, WHO HAS ON THE OTHER HAND PREVENTED LANDING OF ANY CHINESE GOVERNMENT TROOPS ANYWHERE IN MANCHURIA AND RENDERED FUTILE ANY AT- TEMPT ON THE PART OF THE CHINESS AUTHORITIES TO REGAIN CONTROL