500.A15a3/752: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Castle) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received March 14—7:07 a.m.]
44. Please repeat to London.81 A personal suggestion made to you last February was the only reference I have ever made to the possibility of eventual replacement of the Furutaka class by 10,000-ton cruisers. It has never been mentioned here by me because I have never deviated from the original American program, except when conversing with Shidehara as fully reported in my telegram No. 39, March 7, 9 p.m., when I urged the generosity of Reed’s attitude and stated that I was sure the limit of concession had been reached by the United States. This evening I will see Shidehara.
- Transmitted to the American delegation as Department’s telegram No. 209, March 14, 10 a.m.↩