Office of the Historian

Entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan 1

1. See also the paper entitled “Political and Military Situation in China in the Event the U. S. S. R. Enters the War in the Far East”, ante, pp. 351–352.

[248] The President to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)

[Washington,] 4 October 1944.

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

[249] President Roosevelt to Prime Minister Churchill

[Washington,] 4 October 1944.

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

[250] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the President

Moscow, 10 October 1944.

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

[251] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the President

Moscow, 11 October 1944.

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

[252] The President to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)

[Washington,] 11 October 1944.

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

[253] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the President

Moscow, 15 October 1944.

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

[255] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the President

Moscow, 15 October 1944.
[Received 16 October.]

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

[256] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the President

Moscow, 17 October 1944.
[Received 18 October.]

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

[257] The Commanding General, United States Military Mission in the Soviet Union (Deane), to the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Moscow, 17 October 1944.
[Received 18 October—6:50 a. m.]

Roosevelt Papers: Telegram

[260] The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman) to the President

Moscow, December 15, 1944.

761.93/12–1544: Telegram

[261] Memorandum of the Division of Territorial Studies

[Washington,] December 28, 1944.

FEC Files

[263] Memorandum of the Division of Territorial Studies

[Washington,] January 10, 1945.

FEC Files

[264] Report by the Joint Staff Planners

[Washington,] 18 January 1945.1

J. C. S. Files

[266] Memorandum by the United States Chiefs of Staff

[Washington,] 22 January 1945.

J. C. S. Files

[267] The Joint Chiefs of Staff to the President

[Washington,] 23 January 1945.

J. C. S. Files

  1. The text here printed is as amended and approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on January 24.↩