500.A15a3/12: Telegram
The Chargé in Japan (Neville) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 20—8:55 a.m.]
65. The Prime Minister told me yesterday that Japan was prepared to support any measures looking to further reduction of armaments; that the country wanted peace and lessened expenditure for war purposes and that he would welcome concrete suggestions; that recent reports had led him to suppose that our Government might later have something definite and he asked me to state that Japan could be counted on.
I told him that I did not know what plans, if any, were under consideration but that I should gladly inform Washington where I was sure it would cause gratification.