893.102 Tientsin/414: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Japan (Dooman)
238. Your 382, August 2, 4 p.m., paragraphs 4 and 5. The Department approves your proposal to make clear to the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs the concern of the Government of the United States in the broader problems involved in the current negotiations between the British and Japanese, including the currency aspect. However, with reference to currency matters, the Department desires that you do not go beyond a statement reading substantially as follows:
“The Government of the United States could not be expected to give assent to any measures arranged by third States which would purport to make illegal the use in any part of a sovereign State of the currency of the recognized government of that State.”