Office of the Historian

762.9411/125½: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, October 21, 1940—6 p.m.
[Received October 21—7:03 a.m.]

1022. Japan’s treaty alliance with Germany and Italy was ratified by the Emperor on October 19 and published in the Gazette on October [Page 667] 21 in the Japanese language only. The phraseology is the same as previously published in the press.83

Grew
  1. The Department was informed on November 20, 23, and 24, 1940, that Hungary, Rumania, and Slovakia had adhered to the treaty.↩