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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State
I called on the President in his study in the White House at 6:50 this evening and took up the following matters:
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6. I then referred to Ambassador Hurley’s telegram65 to the President setting forth certain questions which had been asked by Chiang Kai-shek with regard to the implementation of certain points in the Yalta agreement with regard to the Far East, which Admiral Leahy had sent to me with the request that we draft a reply to Ambassador Hurley. I said to the President that I did not see how we could possibly [Page 907] answer these questions until the matter had been discussed with Marshal Stalin, and I thought the replies would have to await the meeting of the Big Three. I also said that I did not see how Dr. Soong could very well take these matters up with Marshal Stalin himself without the presence of the others. The President definitely concurred and said that Chiang Kai-shek and Dr. Soong know everything that he knows about the agreement, and that while he is definitely committed to the agreement, as stated, he is not in a position to expand the interpretation of it. He agreed that I should reply to Ambassador Hurley along the foregoing lines.…
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