Office of the Historian

Issuance of a proclamation calling for the surrender of Japan

[1236] No. 1236
The Secretary of War (Stimson) to the Secretary of State

Potsdam , 1y [16] July 1945.

740.0011 P. W./7–1645

[1237] No. 1237
The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State

[Washington,] July 16, 1945.

740.0011 PW (Peace)/7–1645: Telegram

[1238] No. 1238
Memorandum by the Acting Secretary of State

[Washington,] July 17, 1945.

740.00119 PW/7–1745

[1239] No. 1239
The Joint Chiefs of Staff to the President

Washington [Babelsberg], 18 July 1945.

740.00119 PW/7–1845

[1240] No. 1240
The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State

[Washington,] July 19, 1945.

740.00119 PW/7–1945 Telegram

[1241] No. 1241
The Secretary of War (Stimson) to the President

[Babelsberg,] 20 July 1945.

Department of the Army Files

[1242] No. 1242
The Secretary of State to the Acting Secretary of State

Babelsberg, July 21, 1945.

740.00119 PW/7–2145: Telegram

[1243] No. 1243
The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State

[Washington,] July 22 [1945.]

740.00119 PW/7–2245: Telegram

[1245] No. 1245
Proposal by the British Delegation

[Undated.]

740.00119 Potsdam/7–2245

[1246] No. 1246
The President to the Ambassador in China (Hurley)

[Babelsberg,] 24 July 1945.

740.00119 Potsdam/8–745: Telegram

[1247] No. 1247
The Ambassador in China (Hurley) to the President and the Secretary of State

[Chungking,] 25 July 1945.

Nanking Embassy Files: Telegram

[1248] No. 1248
President Truman to Prime Minister Churchill

Babelsberg, July 25, 1945.

Truman Papers

[1249] No. 1249
Prime Minister Churchill to President Truman

Whitehall [Babelsberg], July 25, 1945.

740.00119 PW/7–2545

[1250] No. 1250
The White House Map Room to the Ambassador in China (Hurley)

[Babelsberg?], 25 July 1945.

740.00119 Potsdam/7–2545: Telegram

[1251] No. 1251
The Ambassador in China (Hurley) to the President and the Secretary of State

[Chungking,] 26 July 1945.

740.00119 Potsdam/8–745: Telegram

[1252] No. 1252
The Ambassador in China (Hurley) to the President and the Secretary of State

[Chungking,] 26 July 1945.

740.00119 Potsdam/8–745: Telegram

[1254] No. 1254
Department of State Memorandum

[Undated.]

Staff Committee Files

[1255] No. 1255
The White House Information Officer (Ayers) to the President’s Secretary (Ross)

[Washington,] 27 July 1945.

740.00119 Potsdam/7–2745: Telegram

[1258] No. 1258
Press Conference Statement by Prime Minister Suzuki

[Tokyo, July 28, 1945.]

Printed from “Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, Monday, July 30, 1945” (Washington, Federal Communications Commission, Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, mimeographed, 1945), pp. BC 1–2. The extracts here printed are a translation of portions of a Domei transmission in romaji carried by Radio Tokyo’s Greater East Asia service at 3 a.m., Eastern War Time, July 29, as monitored by the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service.

This statement is apparently the Japanese rejection of the Potsdam Proclamation to which Truman referred in his statement of August 6 (document No. 1315). Cf. Byrnes, Speaking Frankly, p. 263; Stimson and Bundy, On Active Service in Peace and War, p. 625. The passage cited in Stimson and Bundy suggests that Stimson had seen a somewhat different English version of Suzuki’s statement, containing the phrase “unworthy of public notice”.