893.51/2261g: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Morris)

The Department is replying in the following sense to a note from the French Government dated June 6. You may hand a copy informally to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and request copy of the French note to which reply is made. The Department trusts the Japanese Foreign Office will concur in the position taken by this Government and use its best efforts to make possible an organization meeting in Paris by June 18. Questions of interpretation can be discussed at any time after that.

[Here follows the text of the reply to the French Government as embodied in the telegram of June 11 to the Ambassador in France, printed supra.]

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