740.0011 P.W./6–945
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State
I went to the President this morning at eleven o’clock and attended the interview between the President and Dr. T. V. Soong, Foreign Minister of China, which lasted for a full hour. Admiral Leahy was also present. The President told Dr. Soong of the agreements reached at Yalta with regard to the Far East and he showed the Minister the telegram which we are about to send to Ambassador Hurley on this subject.52 There was a long discussion of every point, the President making it clear that he was definitely committed to the agreements reached by President Roosevelt. It is understood that Dr. Soong will leave Washington on June 15 to go first to Chungking, where he will discuss this matter with the Generalissimo, and then to Moscow to talk to Marshal Stalin.
At the end of the conference, the President asked me to send to Dr. Soong a copy of the telegram to Ambassador Hurley. I said that I would have the telegram paraphrased and would then have it sent by safe hand to place in Dr. Soong’s hands personally. Dr. Soong undertook not to telegraph this information to Chungking as we impressed on him very forcibly the serious results which would flow from any leaks. This was mentioned twice in the conference.
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