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740.00119 P.W./8–1045: Telegram

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, Personal Representative of President Truman on the Reparations Commission, to President Truman and the Secretary of State87

Moscow, August 10, 1945.
[Received August 10—11:40 p.m.]

M–25261. Conclusions I have reached through discussions on reparations and otherwise lead me to the belief that our forces should occupy quickly as much of the industrial areas of Korea and Manchuria as we can, starting at the southerly tip and progressing northward. I am assuming all of this will be done at no risk of American lives after organized hostilities have ceased, and occupancy to continue only until satisfactory agreements have been reached between the nations concerned with respect to reparations and territorial rights or other concessions.

[Pauley]
  1. Transmitted by the head of the American Military Mission in the Soviet Union (Deane).↩