500.A15a3/799: Telegram
The Chairman of the American Delegation (Stimson) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received March 28—12:30 p.m.]
171. Have cabled following to Castle, today, 4 p.m.:
“Referring to your cable today, noon, and your question regarding actual part taken by Japanese delegation in the settlement now under consideration at Tokyo. At a meeting of the heads of delegations held on Tuesday, March 25, the following was adopted on Wakatsuki’s suggestion as a correct statement of the facts:7
‘In regard to Japan a compromise had emerged from the negotiations between the delegations of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Japan, which the Japanese delegation had agreed to recommend to its Government. It was incorrect to say as had been said that that compromise proposal was an American proposal since, as he had stated, it had emerged from the negotiations.’”
- Quoted passage not paraphrased.↩