Telegram from Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley to President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes

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NLT- 118 TOS SECREP DISPATCH copy 2 DRAFTER EXT. ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE ASTERISK (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE 1 FROM COMNAVGRP CHINA 2 ARCHIVES 'NATIONAL AND 3 RELEASED BY RECORDS SECRETARY OF STATE ROUTINE a SERVICE 4 DEFERRED 5 DATE 20 JULY 1945 THE PRES IDENT BASEGRAM 6 7 TOR CODEROOM 200352 DECLASSIFIED by authority of 8 READY F.R. 1945 PRIORITY 9 DECODED BY 10 ROUTINE PARAPHRASED READY CHECKED Val.VII P948 11 BY BY MILLER DEFERRED 12 DITTOED Initials He Dateg 66-73 ROUTED BY READY BY READY BASEGRAM 13 14 UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED THIS DISPATCH WILL TRANSMITTED WITH DEFFREE PRECEDENCE AND AS ADMINISTRATIVE. IF OPERATIONAL 15 CHECK BELOW 16 PAGE 1 OF 6 PAGES 191752 NCR 4160 17 18 Originator fill in DATE AND TIME GROUP (Use C. T. ) 19 ON OUTGOING DISPATCHES PLEASE LEAVE ABOUT ONE INCH CLEAR SPACE BEFORE BEGINNING TEXT 20 21 FROM COMNAVGROUP CHINA( THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TOP SECRET22 AND URGENT FOR THE EYES ALONE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE 23 JAMES S BYRNES, POTSDAM, GERMANY.FO THE PRESIDENT FROM 24 HURLEY) 25 26 THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS FROM THE GENERALISSIMO 27 PRESIDENT CHIANG KAI SHEK, FOR PRESIDENT TRUMAN I SAW 28 29 SOVIET AMBASSADOR TODAY AND REQUESTED HIM TO SEND FOLLOWING 0 MESSAGE TO GENERALISSIM STALIN: I WISH TO THANK YOU MOST 31 32 WARMLY FOR YOUR CORDIAL RECEPTION TO DR T V SOONG, AND THE 33 FRANK AND FORTHRIGHT CONFERENCE YOU HAD WITH HIM. 34 35 ON THE QUESTION OF OUTER MONGOLIA WE HAD EXPECTED THAT YOU WOULD BE SATISFIED WITH OUR NOT PRESSING THE QUESTION g 38 ALTHOUGH BOTH IN 1924 AND IN 1936 YOUR GOVERNMENT HAD GIVEN 39 CATEGORICAL ASSURANCES RECOGNIZING THAT OUTER MONGOLIA IS 40 41 AN INTEGRAL PART OF CHINA, PRESERVATION OF THE STATUS QUO 42 COULD ONLY MEAN THAT WHILE THE DE FACTO POSITION IS TO BE 43 44 PRESERVED THE LEGAL TITLE OF CHINA IN OUTER MONGOLIA IS 45 LIKEWISE TO BE UNDISTURBED. YOUR INSISTENCE THAT CHINA 46 47 SHOULD RECOGNIZE INDEPENDENCE OF OUTER MONGOLIA COMES AS 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. O PNAV 19-78