Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1936, The Far East, Volume IV

894.6363/300: Telegram

Tokyo, December 23, 1936—7 p.m.
[Received December 23—9:35 a.m.]

266. Embassy’s 265, December 22, 8 p.m.

1.: My British colleague informs me that he has just received his instructions to the effect that Eden agrees with your views and that Clive is to concert with me and to proceed as soon as possible to joint representations to the Japanese Government. Clive proposes that the two Embassies prepare an identic memorandum to be communicated tomorrow, the 24th, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, either personally or in some other manner if the Minister cannot see us.
2.: Please rush instructions if not already sent. I feel that our representations should be approximately simultaneous and substantially identical not joint and identic.
3.: According to the telegram received by Clive, Eden also took advantage of an interview with Yoshida93 to draw attention to the difficult position of the British oil interests because of the failure of the Japanese Government to live up to its promises.

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