Telegram from Ambassador Averell Harriman to President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes

NLT-99 TOY SECRET DISPATCH Copy 2 DRAFTER EXT. ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE ASTERISK (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE URGENT 1 FROM AMBASSADOR HARR IMAN PRIORITY 2 THE PRESIDENT 3 ROUTINE RELEASED BY THEAR THE SECRETARY OF STATE 4 DEFERRED 5 DATE 3 JULY 1945 ARCHIVES *NATIONAL SERVICE" AND FOR DICLASSI.I.D Ly authority of BASEGRAM 6 GOVER the 7 TOR CODEROOM 1354/3 expecters 8 DECODED BY CONNORS ve. VII P910 PRIORITY 9 10 ROUTINE PARAPHRASED CHECKED Datef-6.73 11 BY CONNORS BY BALDWIN DEFERRED 12 CONNORS DITI CONNORS BASEGRAM 13 ROUTED BY BY 14 UNLESS OTMERWISE INDICATED THIS DISPATCH WILL BE TRANSMITTED WITH DEFFRRED PRECEDENCE AND AS ADMINISTRATIVE. IF OPERATIONAL 15 PAGE 1 OF a NCR 1345 CHECK BELOW 031200 16 17 18 Originator till in DATE AND TIME GROUP (Use G. C. T.) 19 ON OUTGOING DISPATCHES PLEASE LEAVE ABOUT ONE INCH CLEAR SPACE BEFORE BEGINNING TEXT 20 21 PERSONAL AND TOPSECRET FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY OF 22 STATE FROM HARRIMAN. 23 24 25 AT SOONG'S REQUEST I CALLED ON HIM THIS MORNING. HE GAVE ME TO 26 READ THE DETAILED NOTES IN ENGLISH OF HIS SECOND TALK WITH STALIN 27 28 29 WHICH TOOK PLACE LAST NIGHT. MOLOTOV, LOZOVSKY, COMMOSSAR OF 30 FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AND PETROV WERE PRESENT. 31 32 SOONG IS MOST DISTURBED BY STALON'S INSISTENCE THAT THE INTERPRETATION OF "STATUS QUO IN OUTEREMONGOL IA SHALL BE PRESERVED" MEANS THAT THE 34 35 CHINESE GOVERNMENT SHOULD RECOGNIZE THE INDEPENDENCE OF OUTER 36 37 MONGOLIA. SOONG ARGUED THAT THIS SHOULD BE INTERPRETED TO MEAN THAT 38 39 CHINA WOULD NOT RAISE THE ISSUESAT THE PRESENT TIME BUT WOULD 40 ALLOW THE SITUATION THAT PRESENTLY EXISTS TO CONTINUE. HE TOLD 41 42 STALIN THAT CHINA COULD NOT AGREE TO THE CESSAONDOF TERRITORY, 43 THAT IT WOULD COMPLICATE THE QUESTION OF TIBET, AND THAT NO 44 45 GOVERNMENT OF CHINA COULD LAST IF IT CEDED OUTER MONGOLIA. HE 46 EXPLAINED TO ME THAT IT WAS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE DEEP IN CHINESE 47 48 49 No. I ADMIRAL. No. 2 FILE. No. 3F-I OR CHARTROOM. No. 4 SPECIAL. 50 51 TOP SECRET 52 Handle only in accordance with "Top Secret instructions contained in Article 76, Navy Regulations COPY NO. OPNAV 19-78