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Memorandum by the Counselor of Embassy in Japan (Dooman)

[Tokyo,] September 23, 1941.

I was called to the Foreign Office this afternoon by the Director of the American Bureau who orally made a statement, which he stressed was being conveyed to me at the direction of the Foreign Minister, for communication to the Ambassador and for transmission by Mr. Grew to the Government of the United States. This statement, Mr. Terasaki said, is to be considered supplementary to the statements which Admiral Toyoda made to the Ambassador during their conversation yesterday.

The attached text has been prepared from the full notes which I took while Mr. Terasaki made the oral statement.16

E[ugene] H. D[ooman]
  1. Not printed. For translation submitted by the Japanese Ambassador (Nomura) on September 27, 1941, see p. 640.↩