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Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by the Under Secretary of State (Grew)
With reference to my talk on December 28 with Major General George V. Strong, U. S. Army, General Strong called me on the telephone today and asked whether we had made any progress in considering action on the papers covering the proposed Japanese surrender terms which had been drawn up by the Joint Post-War Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I told General Strong, after investigation, that these papers had been given careful study in our Department and that the delay in proceeding with the matter had been largely of an organizational character. In connection with the setting up of the Interdepartmental Committee and the subcommittee,31 on which Mr. Dooman32 would represent this Department, I said to the General that I thought the matter could be taken up without much further delay.