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

NLT-104 SECRAT DISPATCH C Copy 2 DRAFTER EXT. ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE ASTERI: (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE AMBASSADOR HARRIMAN 1 FROM PRIORITY 2 THE PRESIDENT URGENT. 3 RELEASED BY ROUTINE 4 8 JULY 1945 THE SECRETARY OF DEFERRED 5 DATE STATE BASEGRAM 6 1612/8 7 TOR CODEROOM DECLASSIFIED hy authority of 8 F.R.1945 3. THOUGH DECODED BY GLUNT PRIORITY 9 10 PARAPH RASED CHECKED Vol. VII P.920 AND ROUTINE BY GLUNT BY TALMAN is - SERVICET scrukes 11 Initials/Ac Date 8-6-13 DEFERRED 12 DITTOED ROUTED BY TALMAN BY GLUNT BASEGRAM 13 14 UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED THIS DISPATCH WILL BE TRANSMITTED WITH DEFFRRED PRECEDENCE AND AS ADMINISTRATIVE. IF OPERATIONAL 15 CHECK BELOW 16 081310 NCR 5508 17 18 Originator fill 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 TOP SECRET FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE 22 SECRETARY OF STATE FROM HARRIMAN. 23 24 25 SOONG GAVE ME THIS MORNING A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HIS 26 TALK WITH STALIN LAST NIGHT. SOONG PROPOSED THE ACCEPT- 27 28 ANCE BY CHINA OF THE YALTA FORMULA ON OUTER MONGOLIA 29 PRESERVING THE STATUS QUO BOTH JUDISICAL AND FACTUAL AND 30 31 IN ADDITION IF DESIRED, CHINA WOULD GRANT OUTER MONGOLIA 32 A HIGHER DEGREE OF AUTONOMY INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO HAVE 33 34 INDEPENDENT ARMED FORCES, THUS OUTER MONGOLIA WOULD BE 35 FREE TO MAKE ANY MILITARY ARRANGEMENTS DESIRED WITH THE 36 37 SOVIET UNION. STALIN STATED THAT THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH, THAT 38 IF THERE WAS TO BE A PACT OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE SOVIET 39 40 UNION AND CHINA ALL QUESTIONS WOULD HAVE TO BE SETTLED IN 41 ADVANCE. STALIN ARGUED THAT THE YALTA FORMULA MEANT THE 42 43 FORMAL RECOGNITION BY CHINA OF OUTER MONGOLIA AS AN IN- 44 DEPENDENT REPUBLIC. HE HANDED SOONG A DRAFT AGREEMENT TO 45 46 BE SIGNED BY THE SOVIET UNION AND CHINA GIVING FORMAL 47 RECOGNITION TO THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE OUTER MONGOLI IAN 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