Office of the Historian

893.51/2867: Telegram

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis) to the Secretary of State

London, July 13, 1920—7 p.m.
[Received 8:02 p.m.]

1057. Your 717, July 9, 7 p.m. Coincident with your inquiry Foreign Office, referring to 3d paragraph of first enclosure my despatch 1061 July 21st last,41 my telegram 559 April 6, 10 p.m.42 and 4th paragraph of Department’s memorandum to Japanese Ambassador April 29, 1920,43 state that they are unaware whether Japanese Government has ever formally signified its acceptance of the formula and consider it advisable to know whether it has adhered thereto in the same formal manner as have the other three powers.

Having assumed [that] the initiative of conveying to the Japanese Government the approval of the letters mentioned lies with us, British Government has not yet formally notified Japanese Government on its own behalf but are telegraphing instructions to Embassy at Tokyo to consult American Embassy and to communicate such approval following us or immediately thereafter.

Paris informed.

Davis
  1. Foreign Relations, 1919, vol. i, p. 468.↩
  2. Ante, p. 526.↩
  3. Ante, p. 536.↩