Office of the Historian

741.9411/145: Telegram

The Chargé in Japan (Bell) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, July 12, 1921—6 p.m.
[Received 10:18 p.m.]

243. My 232, July 6, 6 p.m.58 Foreign Office issues following:

“With reference to the notification of July 8th, 1920, which the Governments of Great Britain and Japan jointly made to the League of Nations59 on the subject of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance agreement the two Governments further addressed to the League the following joint notification under the date of July 7th.

‘Whereas the Governments of Great Britain and Japan informed the League of Nations in their joint notification of July 8th, 1920, that they recognized the principles that if the Anglo-Japanese Alliance agreement of July 13th, 1911, is continued after 1921, it must be in a form which is not inconsistent with the Covenant of the League; they hereby notify the League, pending further action, that they are agreed that if any situation arises whilst the agreement remains in force in which the procedure prescribed by the terms of the agreement is inconsistent with the procedure prescribed by the Covenant of the League of Nations then the program [procedure] prescribed by the said Covenant shall be adopted and shall prevail over that prescribed by the agreement’”

Bell
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. See telegram no. 364, July 26, 1920, from the Chargé in Japan, Foreign Relations, 1920, vol. ii, p. 685.↩