893.51/2545: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Morris)
Last two paragraphs of your November 15, 7 p.m. leave the Department in doubt whether you have received in comprehensible form its October 29th, 6 p.m.86 which distinguishes between interests as defined by territorial limitations and those which are vested.
To obviate any possibility of misunderstanding on this point it is hoped that you will take every opportune occasion to emphasize to the Japanese officials that distinction which this Government regards as essential and on the basis of which the British Government on the 12th instant [19th ultimo] addressed to the Japanese Embassy in London a memorandum of which the substance is as follows: After referring to the Japanese Government’s memorandum accepting and confirming the bankers’ resolutions concerning the international consortium the British Government states
[Here follows the remainder of the memorandum as quoted in the telegram of November 25 from the Ambassador in Great Britain, printed supra, beginning “At a subsequent interview …”]
Repeat to Peking for information.