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

NLT. 141 SECRET DISPATCH Copy 2 DRAFTER EXT. ADDRESSEES PRECEDENCE ASTERISK (*) MAILGRAM ADDRESSEE URGENT-URGENT FROM ALUSNA MOSCOW PRIOR TY 2 RELEASED BY ARCHIVES "NATIONAL SERVIOE" CONTINUED AND 3 3 RECURDS ROUTINE 4 THE PRESIDENT DEFERRED DATE 11 AUGUST, 1945 5 SECRETARY OF STATE BASEGRAM 6 7 TOR CODEROOM 1115112 DECLASSIFIED by authority of 8 PRIORITY 9 DECODED BY CONNORS Sept. fittal F.R.1945 10 ROUTINE PARAPH RASED CHECKED vol. VII P.967 11 BY CONNORS BY GARDNER DEFERRED 12 DITTOED Initials SHC Date:- 6. 73 BY CONNORS BASEGRAM 13 ROUTED BY CONNORS 14 UNLESS OTMERWISE INDICATED THIS DISPATCH WILL BE TRANSMITTED WITH DEFERRED PRECEDENCE AND. AS ADMINISTRATIVE. IF OPERATIONAL 15 PAGE 1 OF 5 CHECK BELOW 16 NCR652 URGEN 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 21 22 PERSONAL AND TOP SECRET FOR THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECRETARY OF 23 STATE FROM HARRIMAN. 24 25 26 SOONG TOLD ME THIS MORNING OF HIS NEGOTIATIONS WITH STALIN 27 LAST NIGHT. STALIN INSISTS THAT DAIREN BE WITHIN TH6 SOVIET 28 29 MILITARY ZONE BUT AGREES THAT MILITARY AUTHORITY SHOULD NOT REPEAT 30 NOT BE EXERCISED IN TIME OF PEACE OVER THE CITY OF DAIREN INCLUDING 31 32 THE PORT AND CONNECTING RAILWAYS. IN TIME OF WAR THE SOVIETS WOUSD 33 ASSUME CONTROL. THIS SEEMED ACCEPTABLE TO SOONG. STALIN NOW AGREES 34 35 36 THAT THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY OF DAIREN INCLUDING THE PORT 37 SHOULD BE CHINESE. THE CHIEF OF THE PORT, HOWEVER SHOULD BE SOVIET 38 39 REPORTING TO THE CHINESE MAYOR. THIS ALSO SOONG IS PREPARED TO 40 ACCEPT. STALIN, HOWEVER, PROPOSED THAT THE PORT FACILITIES SHOULD 41 42 BE JOINTLY OWNED. SOONG WILL NOT AGREE TO THIS BUT WILL PROPOSE 43 THAT CERTAIN WHARVES AND STORAGE FACILITIES SHOULD BE LEASED TO THE 44 45 46 SOVIETS AT NOMINAL TERMS. HE HOPES THAT STALIN WILL ACCEPT THIS 47 C 48 49 No. I ADMIRAL. No. 2 FILE. No. 3F- I OR CHARTROOM. -No. 4 SPECIAL. 50 51 TOP SECRET 52 Handle 1112452 contained in Article only in accordance with "Top Secre ions 76, Ctians COPY NO. 111258 O PNAV 19-78