861.77/1202: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Morris) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 14, 2:18 p.m.]
Your November 12, 5 p.m. Sharkey, Associated Press correspondent, advised me on the morning of November 2nd that he had full knowledge of the memorandum of the Japanese Government of October 30th but that as in the case of his knowledge of the American note of September 5th the source of his information was strictly confidential and that he was under obligation not to reveal it. The Japanese Government has not published here the correspondence or any summary of it and as far as I know Sharkey’s report to the Associated Press has not been repeated back to Tokyo. It has therefore produced no result in Japan.