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740.00119 FEAC/1–746: Circular telegram

The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic Representatives Abroad 23

Washington , January 7, 1946.

View this Govt that Far Eastern Commission succeeded Far Eastern Advisory Commission Dec 27, date Moscow communiqué,24 and therefore no need to implement succession by formal dissolution, inauguration or other formalities.

Convey above informally FonOff, explaining this Govt’s position based solely on desire to free Commission from confusing and burdensome procedural detail.

Byrnes
  1. At Canberra, Chungking, London, Moscow, New Delhi, Ottawa, Paris, The Hague, and Wellington.↩
  2. For text of communiqué issued by the Foreign Ministers on December 27, 1945, see Foreign Relations, 1945, vol. ii, p. 815, or Department of State Bulletin, December 30, 1945, p. 1027.↩