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The Department of State to the British Embassy 4
The Department has just received from the American Embassy in Tokyo a telegram5 stating that there has been given to the Chargé d’Affaires a copy of a note which has been handed to the Ambassadors of Great Britain, France, Germany and Poland, as representatives of the belligerent powers, and to the Italian Ambassador, as well as to the Chargé, in which the Japanese Government “offered a friendly advice to the belligerent powers concerned that they should voluntarily withdraw their troops and warships from” “those regions of China which are under control of the Japanese forces”. The Japanese Foreign Office asked the Chargé to communicate this to the American Government “for its information”.
[Page 233]Department assumes that the text of the note communicated to it is identical with the text communicated to the British and other Governments named.
The Department would appreciate being informed at the earliest possible moment what position the British and the French Governments contemplate taking in the presence of this communication.
- The same on the same date to the French Embassy.↩
- No. 458, September 5, 7 p.m., from the Chargé in Japan, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 9.↩