Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1920, Volume I

893.51/2731: Telegram

The Ambassador in France (Wallace) to the Secretary of State

Paris, March 23, 1920—6 p.m.
[Received 6:35 p.m.]

796. Your 548.⁹⁰ Text of Department’s reply to Japanese memorandum of March 2 given to Foreign Office together with explanation of reply being made without awaiting expression of views of the British and French Governments.

Foreign Office has never received this memorandum, its astonishment over non-receipt was apparent when I ventured to state that the British Government had received it. I also showed quite confidentially British reply thereto repeated to me by London. Foreign Office states that if Japanese memorandum is received it will make reply in same sense as American and British Governments.

Wallace

90. See footnote 82, p. 514.