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June 30, 1945	Meeting between Marshal Stalin and Dr. Soong Stalin and Chinese Minister Soong discuss the necessity of warm relations between China and the Soviet Union; Stalin pledges to support China's position.
July 1945	Message from Averell Harriman to the President and Secretary of State 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.
October 9, 1944	Record of Meeting at the Kremlin, Moscow, 9 October 1944, at 10 p.m. Churchill, Eden, Stalin, and Molotov discuss the leadership in Poland, Britains interests in Greece and Hong Kong, the actions of Romania and Bulgaria during the war, Turkey, the need for the Great Powers to exert influence on the Balkans to prevent small wars, the leadership of Italy, interests in Bulgaria and Romania, the dividing of Germany and Germany's future, and the American plans in the war against Japan.
July 2, 1945	Record of a Meeting between T.V. Soong and Stalin Notes taken during meetings between the Chinese nationalist government and the Soviet Union in Moscow during Sino-Soviet treaty negotiations.
August 29, 1945	Cable from Kuz’ma Derevyanko to Aleksei Antonov Report concerning the division of occupied territory in the Pacific between the Soviet Union and the United States.
August 23, 1945	Cable from Vyacheslav Molotov to Soviet Ambassador in the United States Drafted response from Stalin to Truman regarding Hokkaido and Kurile Islands.
August 20, 1945	Order by Aleksei Antonov to Aleksandr Vasilevsky Orders include preparation for the invasion of the island of Hokkaido and the southern Kurile Islands, but are to "begin... only after special instruction by Stalin."
August 20, 1945	Cable from Aleksandr Vasilevsky to Stalin Vasilevsky reports on the progress of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the surrender of Japanese forces.
August 19, 1945	Report by Ivan Yumashev to Aleksandr Vasilevsky The plan of operation for a Soviet invasion of the island of Hokkaido and the Kurile Islands.
August 19, 1945	Order by Aleksandr Novikov to the Commander of the 9th Air Army Novikov gives orders for air support in preparation for a Soviet invasion of the Japanese island of Hokkaido.