Reproduction of the Potsdam Declaration in Truman’s Log

The declaration was released by Truman, the President of the United States, Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of Britain and Chiang Kai-shek, the President of China. The latter was leading the war effort in China from Chongqing, one of the three Allied Headquarters of World War II. Chiang thus could not attend the Potsdam Conference. Instead he proposed amendments to a draft of the declaration per telegram and eventually sent his final approval in the same manner. The Soviet Union did not officially partake in the formulation of the declaration, as it was not yet at war with Japan: the exact date of a Russian entry in the Asian theatre of war was one of the topics of discussion at Potsdam. (Josef Mlejnek)