893.51/2754: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis)1
344. The following is a copy of a memorandum handed to the Department today by Ambassador Shidehara the paragraphs of which are lettered for purposes of eventual comment:
[Here follows the memorandum of April 3 from the Japanese Embassy, printed supra.]
Please communicate the above to the Foreign Office for its information with the statement that this Government is giving the memorandum consideration and will communicate its opinion in the course of a few days and ask that in the meantime the British Government-withhold any further communication on the subject to the Japanese Government as referred to in your 545, April 1, 7 p.m.
Repeat to Paris as number 677.
- See last paragraph for instructions to repeat to Paris as no. 677.↩