Office of the Historian

Hiss Collection

The Secretary of State to the President1
[Yalta,] February 10, 1945.

Memorandum for the President

Subject: Recommendation that the three powers encourage Kuomintang-Communist unity in the war effort against Japan.

As this is likely to be the final plenary session, I suggest that some time during today’s meeting you find occasion to urge the Marshal and the Prime Minister to see that full encouragement is given by [Page 921] their Governments to Kuomintang-Communist unity in the war effort against Japan.

The importance of encouraging united Chinese efforts at this time must be apparent to all three Governments.

  1. Ribbon copy, bearing the initials of Stettinius as drafter and the following penciled notation in Hiss’ handwriting: “Bohlen says ‘the President has already taken this up with Stalin with satisfactory results’ (AH).” See ante, p. 771.↩