Office of the Historian

894.51/639: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Harrison)

Washington, July 1, 1939—3 p.m.

37. Your 56, June 29, 11 a.m., and the Department’s instruction no. 711, May 31, 1939,19 enclosing a copy of a memorandum of conversation20 setting forth the Department’s attitude in regard to the extension of credits to Japanese agents.

The Department desires that, unless you perceive objection, you convey to the appropriate Swiss authorities orally and in confidence the Department’s views as set forth in the enclosure to the despatch under reference. You may add that so far as the Department is aware there have been no substantial deviations by American bankers from the policy desired by the Department. You may add further that we believe the attitude of the British Government to be similar to our own and that British banks appear to have been following a policy similar to that of American banks.

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  1. Neither printed.↩
  2. See memorandum of conversation, by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, January 27, p. 494.↩