Telegram from Ambassador Averell Harriman to President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes
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WND V JMSS NR4
PRIORITY
FROM PAVE RUSS 082330Z
TO MUSK
GR 881 QHR RPT QHR
S.
DECLASSIFIED by authority of
state Dept in to
PART ONE OF FIVE PARTS ROWON OEGRG
NARS 8-10-72
memo from NL
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SERVICE
to NLT 4-12-73
IFLEU
Initials BKZDates 5/21/74
OCKRAOCHES AND BEDBUGS CC PERSONAL AND TOPSECRET
FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE FROM HARRIMAN X
FOLLOWING THE PRELIMINARY TALK REPORTED IN MY XEROEIGHTONETHREEFOURONEXE
BRA I EXPLAINED TO STALIN THAT IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONTEMPLATED
SOVIET CHINESE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PORTS AND RAILROADS IN MANCHURIA
YOU WISHED TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT AMERICAN AND WORLD OPINION S
HOULD NOT CONSTRUE THEM TO PREJUDICE OUR HISTORIC POLICEEEEE
HISTORIC OPEN DOOR POLICY AND THEREFORE ASKED THAT HE PUT IN
tRITING THE VERBAL ASSURANCES HE HAD GIVEN TO SUPPORT THIS POLICY
IN MANCHURIA X HE IMMEDIATELY DAID QUOTE THIS CAN BE DONE UNQUOTE
XI THEN PRESENTES OUR PROPOSED TEXT X HE READ THIS OVER CAREFULLY
AND SAID IT WAS SATISFACTORY EXCEPT FOR THE LAST SENTENCE IN
THE FIRST PARAGRAPH X HE EXPLAINED THAT IT WAS CONTEMPLATED IN
THE YALTA AGREEMENT THAT RUSSIA SHOULD HAVE A PREEMINENT POSITION
AND THAT HE UNDERSTOOD THAT TO MEAN A PREFERENTIAL POSITION IN
THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE PORT OF DAIREN X FF
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