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The Department of State to the British Embassy
Aide-Mémoire
The receipt is acknowledged of the British Embassy’s aide-mémoire of October 26, 1937, with regard to representations to the Japanese Government in the matter of the use of the International Settlement at Shanghai as a base of Japanese military operations.
The Japanese Government’s reply to the American Government’s representations in regard to the matter under reference follows substantially the lines of the reply to the British Government as described in the aide-mémoire under acknowledgment.
With reference to the statement that the British Ambassador in Tokyo has been authorized by the British Government to make further representations to the Japanese Government, and to the inquiry whether the American Government is prepared to take similar action, the American Government has authorized the American Ambassador in Tokyo to make further representations to the Japanese Government in the matter.