756.94/78: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 11—10:05 a.m.]
327. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has just communicated to me the following information:
This afternoon the Minister for Foreign Affairs called in the German Ambassador and, handing him a copy of the Foreign Minister’s statement of April 15 with regard to the status of the Netherlands Indies, stated that the concern of the Japanese Government in maintaining the present status of the Indies, as expressed in the statement of April 15, had been accentuated by recent developments in Europe. He subsequently called in the British and French Ambassadors and made to them a similar statement.
[Page 15]Repeated to Shanghai for Commander-in-Chief and Chungking. Repeated to Batavia.