Office of the Historian

793.94/15340: Telegram

The Chargé in Japan (Dooman) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, September 6, 1939—7 [5] p.m.
[Received September 6—11:08 a.m.]

459. Our 458, September 5, 7 p.m.6

1. There is quoted in the telegram immediately following7 the text of a telegram which the British Ambassador despatched today to London suggesting in outline the reply which should be sent to the Japanese Government’s note quoted in our telegram under reference. The French Ambassador is telegraphing in substantially similar terms to his Government.

[For paraphrase of remainder of telegram No. 459, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, volume II, page 10.]

Dooman
  1. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 9.↩
  2. No. 460, September 6, 7 p.m. (not printed); in this telegram, the Chargé in Japan quoted the British Ambassador’s telegram suggesting that his Government inform the Japanese Government of its intention to retain its troops and ships in the Far East as long as needed to protect British interests and that it was anxious to continue efforts to settle differences with Japan by friendly negotiations (793.94/15348).↩