Telegram from Secretary of State James Byrnes to Ambassador Averell Harriman

WHITE HOUSE NLT-391 ('NATIONAL RECURDS AND us SERVICE" TUT SEGRET MAP ROOM TOP SECRET DECLASSIFIED by authority of 5 August 1945 OP PRIORITY DKK#H post fstale F.R.1945 VO.VI P. 955 9854 FROM: OPNAV Dataf.773 5 TO : ALUSNA, MOSCOW 052041Z NCR RR ice ~ WHITE HOUSE NUMBER 316, TOP SECRET FROM THE SECREPARY OF STATE FOR AMBASSADOR HARRIMAN. "15 parts color Your cable Number 040931. You are authorized to inform Stalin: parea (1) While we have no intention of withdrawing our support of the agreed Yalta proposals we believe that Soong has already met the Yalta requirements and we hope very much the Generalissimo will not press for further concessions. We would request that no agreement be made involving further concessions by China that might adversely affect our interests, particularly with reference to the inclusion of the Port of Dairen in the Soviet military zone, without consultation with us. It should be recalled that President XEFVM Roosevelt declined to agree to Soviet original proposal for a lease of Dairen and insisted on its internationalization as a free port. Because of our interest in the open door policy we would be opposed to the inclusion of the Port of Dairen in the Soviet military zone or its (TWO OR THREE WORDS GARBLED FROM U.S.S. AUGUSTA. BEING SERVICED) Soviet naval base. PARA (3) We would further suggest that a protocol, along the lines of the draft attached to your menorandum of July 28, reaffirming Stalin's verbal assurances to observe the "Open Door" policy in Manchuria should be concluded immediately and published at the same time as the Soviet-Chinese arrangements. KELII - 26/20 TOP-SEGRET COPY NO.