Office of the Historian

893.014/7–445

Memorandum by Mr. Eugene H. Dooman, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State (Dunn), to the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs (Ballantine)

[Washington,] July 4, 1945.

With reference to Mr. Grew’s memoranda of May 14, 1945 summarizing a conversation between the President and T. V. Soong, it will be recalled that there was brief mention made of the retrocession to China of Chinese areas taken by Japan.

I have ascertained from Mr. Grew that nothing in the relevant portion of his memoranda should be construed as an acceptance by the President of any new commitment. The statement of the President with regard to Manchuria and Formosa should be read as a reaffirmation—and nothing more—of our intention to carry out the terms of the Cairo Declaration.57

E. H. Dooman
  1. See White House press release of December 1, 1943, Department of State Bulletin, December 4, 1943, p. 393, and Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943, p. 448.↩