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62 "The Hong Kong Question during the Pacific War (1941-45)”, p. 72.
63 Brigadier A. J. H. Dove of the War Office to C. H. M. Weldock of the Admiralty, 12 August 1945, communicated to the Foreign Office, FO371/46251, and Admiralty to commander-in-chief, British Pacific Fleet, tel. 131957A, important, 13 August 1945, communicated to the Foreign Office, FO371/46252.
64 Seymore to Ernest Bevin, foreign secretary, tel. 857, most immediate and top secret, 16 August; tel. 865, most immediate and top secret, 17 August; tel. 909, most immediate and top secret, 23 August; and Bevin to Seymore, tel. 984, 25 August 1945, FO371/46252.
**Harry S. Truman, Memoirs by Harry S. Truman (New York, 1965), I, p. 492.
**Thorne, op. cit., p. 649.
67 General Hurley, now United States ambassador at Chungking, to secretary of state, tel. 1414, 21 August 1945, in FRUS, The Far East, China, 1945 (Washington, 1969), VII, pp. 507-8.
**Truman, op. cit., pp. 493-4.
*Hurley to secretary of state, tel. CFB$633, 23 August 1945, in FRUS, The Far East, China, 1945, op. cit., p. 511.
70 Truman, op. cit., pp. 494-5.
71 Truman, ibid., p. 496.
72 G. B. Endacott, A History of Hong Kong (Oxford University Press, 1958), p. 302.