Telegram from Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley to the White House Map Room

NLT- 124 P SECRET DISPATCH Copy 2 DRAFTER EXT. ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE ASTERISK (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE URGENT 1 FROM COMNAVGROUP CHINA PRIORITY 2 3 ROUTINE RELEASED BY 4 DEFERRED 5 DATE 25 JULY 1945 NAVAIDE BASEGRAM 6 7 TOR CODEROOM 0529/26 of 8 NATIONAL COOK ARCHIVES AND PRIORITY 9 DECODED BY RECORDS : S'ERVICE" 10 COOK SOVERN MEAD ROUTINE PARAPH RASED GUECKSACHARD 11 BY DEFERRED 12 DITTOED COOK BY COOK BASEGRAM 13 ROUTED BY 14 UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED THIS DISPATCH WILL BE TRANSMITTED WITH DEFERRED PRECEDENCE AND AS ADMINISTRATIVE IF OPERATIONAL 15 PAGE 1 OF 2 260346 NCR 8397 CHECK BELOW 16 17 - 18 Originator fill in DATE AND TIME GROUP (Use G. C. T. 19 ON OUTGOING DISPATCHES PLEASE LEAVE -BBOUT ONE INCH CLEAR SPACE BEFORE BEGINNING TEXT 20 21 (THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE IS TOP SECRET AND URGENT FOR THE WHITE 22 HOUSE MAP ROOM FROM AMBASSADOR HURLEY) 23 24 THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM THE GENERALISSIMO, CHIANG KAI SHEK, 25 FOR PRESIDENT TRUMAN WAS DELIVERED TO BOTH NAVAL GROUP, CHINA 26 27 28 AND HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES FORCES, CHINA THEATER AT 29 1105 HOURS, CHUNGKING TIME JULY 26TH FOR TRANSMISSION TO 30 31 SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES F BYRNES, POTSDAM GERMANY, FOR THE 32 PRESIDENT. QUOTE I CONCUR IN THEPROPOSED PROCLAMATION TO JAPAN, 33 34 WITH THE SINGLE ALTERATION THAT PARAGRAPH (1) SHOULD BE REVISED 35 TO READ QUOTE WE, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE 36 37 38 PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA 39 AND THE PRIME MANISTER OF, GREAT REPRESENTONG THE HUNDREDS 41 OF MILLIONS OF OUR COUNTRYMEN ETC, ETC, ETC, END QUOTE SINCE THE 42 PROCLAMATION IS TO BE BY THE HEADS OF THE THREE GOVERNMENTS 43 44 CONCERNED, CHINAG KAI SHEK, END QUOTE. CONCURRENCE GIVEN TO 45 ME BY CHIANG KAI SHEK AT YELLOW MOUNTAIN, 0930 HOURS CHUNGKING 46 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