500.A15A5/505: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Bingham) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 11—9:10 a.m.]
511. Japanese Chargé d’Affaires called this morning, obviously to check recent Foreign Office statements to him. I discussed with him at length the contents of Department’s 284, October 3, 7 p.m.76 Commenting on the possible attitude of his Government, he pointed out that if Japan did accept invitation to a conference this year it had already been decided that Ambassador Matsudaira would not return to London in time for him to head the Japanese delegation.
In discussing the above conversation with Craigie, he laid stress on the fact that while the British were agreeable to qualitative limitation for the long term, and for the sake of reaching an international agreement in present day circumstances, were prepared to accept quantitative limitation even for a short period, the British Government would not favor short term qualitative limitation.
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