Office of the Historian

740.00119 P.W./8–1545: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)97
Washington, August 15, 1945—4 p.m.

6926. The President has issued to General MacArthur the directive hereafter quoted with its two annexes. Please convey the text of this directive and annexes to the Government to which you are accredited for its information as top secret documents.

[Here follow texts of three documents of August 13, printed on pages 647, 648, and 649.]

Byrnes
  1. Identic telegrams were sent to Chungking and Moscow as Nos. 1262 and 1838, respectively.↩