711.94/1987 Suppl.
The Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck) to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
Dear Mr. Grew: With reference to my strictly confidential letter of May 2, there are enclosed for your information copies of memoranda of conversations which the Secretary of State had with the Japanese Ambassador on May 2, May 7, May 11, and May 1248 on the subject of relations between the United States and Japan. There are also enclosed copies of the proposal presented to the Secretary of State on May 12 by the Japanese Ambassador under authorization from the Japanese Government, an explanatory statement which the Japanese Ambassador presented at the same time,49 and a “Private Explanation” prepared by Father Drought.50
The proposal now presented appears to offer a much less promising basis of an agreement or understanding than the earlier draft proposal51 which the Japanese Ambassador said he had referred to his Government.
Information on this subject continues to be treated here in the strictest confidence and it is therefore requested that the contents of this letter and its enclosures be made known only to Mr. Dooman and that no information regarding this subject in any phase be imparted to any other person.
Yours sincerely,
- Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, pp. 411, 415, and 418.↩
- Ibid., pp.420 and 423.↩
- Received May 12, p. 184.↩
- April 9, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 398.↩