762.9411/119: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
Tokyo, October 12,
1940—2 p.m.
[Received October 12—9:34 a.m.]
[Received October 12—9:34 a.m.]
980. My 954, October 7, 10 p.m., paragraph numbered 5.
- 1.
- Reliable informant states that there are no secret clauses attached to the German-Italian-Japanese pact but that a number of explanatory provisions are contained in a signed procès-verbal.
- 2.
- It furthermore appears that the final authorized English version of the text of the pact cannot be published until the official German and Italian texts have been received from Berlin and Rome and that this explains the use of the word “summary” to describe the text as published on September 27.82
Grew