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

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NLT- 141 Copy 1 DECLASSIFIED by authority of VA171 biti Is He Dated. to 13 JA48 1 / S. WN V JMSS NR 44 -- URGENT -- FROM PAVE RUSS 111258Z is PRATIONAL AND Willer TO MUSK QHR RPT QHR GR 924 BT PART ONE OF BALNK PARTS ROWON XWJRF MSKIM HOPE FAITH AND STUFF WT PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE FROM HAZRIMAM X PARA X SOONG TOLD ME THIS MORNING OF HIS NEGOTIATIONS WITH STALIN LAST NIGKT X STALIN INSIST8 THAT DAIREN BE WITHIN THESOVIET MILNTARY XOME BU/T ACRIES THAT MILITARY AUNHORITY SHOULD NOZ REPEAT NOT BE EXERCIS D IM TIME OF PEACE OVER THE YSMSVLVKFLPVYLN HOPE FAITH AND STUFF WW PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET FOR THE PRESIDENT AND. THE SECRETARY OF STATE FROM. HARRIMAN, X PARA X SOONG TOLD ME THIS MORNING OF HIS NEGOTIATIONS WITH STALIN LAST. NIGHT X STALIN INSISTS THAT DAIREN BE WITHIN THESOVIET MILITARY XONE BUT AGREES THAT MILITARY AUTHORITY SHOULD NOT REPEAT NOT BE EXERCIS ED IN TIME OF PEACE OVER THE CITY OF DATREN INCLUDING THE PORT AND CONNECTING RAILWAYS X IN TOME OF WAR THE SOVIETS WHOULD AS SUME CONTROL X THIS SEEMED ACCEPTABLE IO SOONG XISTALIN NOW AGREES THAT THE ADMINISTAATION OF THE CITY OF DAIREN INCLUDING THE FORT SHOULD BE CHINESE X THE CHIEF OF THE PORT x HOWEVER X SHOULD BE SOVIET REPORTING TO THE CHINESE MAYOR X THIS ALSO SOONG IS PREPARED TO ACCEPT X STALIN X HOWEVER X PROPOSED THAT THE PORT FICILITIES SHOULD BE JOINTLY OWNED X SOONG WILL NOT AGREE TO THIS BUT WILL LL