1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
1879- 1953
1891- 1986
East Asia
1882- 1945
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1890- 1986
1884- 1972
China
June 26, 1944
Harriman telling the President that he presented the Stalingrad and Leningrad scrolls to Stalin.
February 2, 1944
W. Averell Harriman and Joseph Stalin discuss the United States using Soviet Air Bases on the Pacific coast and the Soviets entering the Pacific fight.
July 1945
Harriman reports on Chiang Kai-Shek and Stalin's bartering over the status of Outer Mongolia. Chiang refuses to recognize its independence now, but offers to hold a plebiscite after the war.
August 19, 1945
Responding to a message from Stalin, Truman agrees to allow Soviet control of the Kurile Islands, but stresses that all islands of Japan proper, including Hokkaido, are to be surrendered to US forces.