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

NLT-113 SECWEY DISPATCH Copy 2 DRAFTER EXT. ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE AMBASSADOR HARRIMAN ASTERISK (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE 1 FROM PRIORITY 2 PRIORITY THE PRESIDENT 3 RELEASED BY ROUTINE DATE : ARCHIVES SERVICE" 'MATIONAL CORDS AND 4 12 JULY 1945 THE SECRETARY OF STATE DEFERRED 5 BASEGRAM 6 TOR CODEROOM 0235/12 DECLASSIAID by authority of 7 8 GLUNT F.R.1945 PRIORITY 9 DECODED BY & Vel.III P.932 10 PARAPH RASED GLUNT CHECKED TALMAN ROUTINE 11 BY BY DEFERRED 12 TALMAN DITTOED GLUNT ROUTED BY BY BASEGRAM 13 14 UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED THIS DISPATCH WILL BE TRANSMITTED WITH DEFFRRED PRECEDENCE AND AS AOMINISTRATIVE IF OPERATIONAL 15 CHECK BELOW PAGE 1. 120015 NCR 8059 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 TOP SECRET FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY OF 22 STATE FROM HARRIMAN. 23 24 25 SOONG HAD ANOTHER TALK WITH STALIN TONIGHT. HE TELLS ME THAT HE HAS COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING ON ALL MATTERS ALONG THE 26 27 GENERAL LINES PREVIOUSLY REPORTED EXCEPT FOR SOME POINTS AS TO 28 29 THE RAILROADS AND THE PORTS. AFTER LONG ARGUMENT STALIN AGREED 30 THAT THE GUARDS SHOULD BE CHINESE AND THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO 31 32 RIGHTS TO MOVE SOVIET TROOPS IN MANCHURIA. THE FORCES GOING TO 33 34 PORT ARTHUR WOULD BE MOVED BY SEA. THE FINAL POINT NOT AGREED TO 35 REGARDING THE RAILROADS IS CONTROL OF THE MANAGEMENT. STALIN STILL 36 37 INSISTS ON A MAJORITY OF THE DIRECTORS WHICH SOONG HAS RESISTED. 38 SOONG HAS OFFERED JOINT OPERATION WITH EQUAL PARTICIPATION IN THE 39 BOARD AND THE MANAGEMENT. AS TO THE PORTS STALIN STILL INSISTS 40 41 THAT THE MILITARY ZONE UNDER RUSSIAN CONTROL SHOULD INCLUDE DAIREN 42 AS WELL AS PORT ARTHUR AND THAT THERE SHOULD BE A NAVAL BASE WITH- 43 44 IN DAIREN. SOONG OFFERS PORT ARTHUR AND THE AREA SOUTH OF DAIREN 45 46 AS A MILITARY ZONE. DAIREN HOWEVER SHOULD BE A FREE PORT UNDER 47 CHINESE MANAGEMENT WITH CERTAIN DOCKS AND STORAGE YARDS LEASED 48 '49 No. I ADMIRAL. No. 2 FILE. No. 3F-J 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. O PNAV 19-78