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

NLT-122 SECRET- DISPATCH Copy 2 DRAFTER EXT. ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE ASTERISK (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE FROM COMNAVGROUP CHINA URGENT 1 THE PRESIDENT PRIORITY 2 3 ROUTINE RELEASED BY 4 ARCHIVES 5. "NATIONAL AND SECRETARY OF STATE DEFERRED 5 DATE 26 JULY 1945 KECORD6 FOR BASEGRAM 6 SERVICE" DECLASSIFIED by authority of pitalian 7 TOR CODEROOM 05/3/26 Sept aslate F.R.toys 8 DECODED BY COOK cords Vol.II P. 1282 PRIORITY 9 10 ROUTINE PARAPH RASED CHECKED 11 COOK PACKARD Initialitic Date F.6.73 BY BY DEFERRED 12 DITTOED COOK BASEGRAM 13 ROUTED BY COOK BY 14 UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED THIS DISPATCH WILL BE TRANSWITTED WITH DEFERRED PRECEDENCE AND AS AOMINISTRATIVE. IF OPERATIONAL 15 NCR 8394 CHECK, BELOW PAGE 1 OF 2 260345 16 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 (THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TOP SECRET AND URGENT FOR THE EYES ALONE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES F BYRNES POTSDAM, GERMANT FOR 23 THE PRESIDENT FROM AMBASSADOR HURLEY) 24 25 26 THE FOLDOWING MESSAGE IS FROM THE GENERALISSIMO, CHIANG KAI 27 SHEK, FOR PRESIDENT TRUMAN. QUOTE I CONCURR IN THE PROPOSED 28 29 PROCLAMATION TO JAPAN, WITH THE SINGLE ALTERATION THAT PARAGRAPH 30 (1) SHOULD BE REVISED TO READ QUOTE WE, THE PRESIDENT OF THE 31 32 UNITED STATES, THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE 33 REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND THE PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITIAN, 34 35 36 REPRESENTING THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF OUR COUNTRYMEN ETC, 37 ETC,ETC END QUOTE SINCE THE PROCLAMATION IS TO BE BY THE HEADS 38 39 OF THE THREE GOVERNMENTS CONCERNED, CHIANG KAI SHEK, END QUOTE. 40 41 CONCURRANCE GIVEN TO ME BY CHIANG KAI SHEK AT YELLOW 42 MOUNTAIN, 0930 HOURS CHUNGKING TIME JULY 26TH. DELAY IN 43 44 TRANSMISSION DUE TO FACT I HAD TO RETURN TO CHUNGKING BY FERRY 45 46 YANGTZE RIVER BECAUSE LACK OF COMMUNICATIONS. FOREGOING MESSAGE 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. O PNAV 19-78