File No. 861.00/1641
The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador ( Jusserand )
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your two notes of the respective dates of March 12 and April 21, 1918,1 concerning the question of intervention by Japan in Siberia, in the former of which you were so good as to point out the consequences which your Government deem it proper to draw therefrom in the interest of the common cause, and in the latter, to give me the substance of a telegram received by your Government from the Ambassador of France at Tokyo reporting concerning a conversation he had with the Japanese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding the attitude of the Japanese Government toward an eventual action in Siberia.
I beg to thank your excellency for the courtesy of your notes to which this Government has been pleased to give serious consideration. It has not, however, been able to find therein any reason to change the view it entertains that any action in the way of intervention in Siberia would now be inopportune and should for the present be deferred, which it is this Government’s understanding is shared by the Government of Japan.
Accept [etc.]