893.51/2375: Telegram
The Ambassador in France (Wallace) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7.45 p.m.]
1297. I showed the Minister for Foreign Affairs this morning copy of the British memorandum of August 11 to the Japanese Ambassador at London, a copy of which was received by telegraph from London, and I urged that the French Government take similar action to support the communications thus made by Great Britain and the United States. I also called his attention to the strong phraseology of the British communication and said that I considered it to be of paramount importance that the Japanese Government [Page 479] should be impressed with the fact that the French, British, and American Governments were in complete accord in regard to the scope of the consortium in China.
Mr. Pichon assured me that his Government would certainly take steps to support the stand taken by America and Great Britain. At his request I left with him a copy of the British memorandum which he had not yet seen.