Office of the Historian

740.0011 P. W./316: Telegram

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

Tokyo, July 27, 1941—7 p.m.
[Received July 27—2:30 p.m.]

1103. My 1101, July 27, 3 p.m.,59 paragraph numbered 3. It seems to me incredible that Admiral Nomura did not promptly telegraph to his Government the President’s proposal presented to the Ambassador 3 days ago.60 I am convinced of the honesty of Admiral Toyoda’s statement to me this morning that he had not yet received the proposal. The suggestion is unavoidable that extremist elements in the Foreign Office may have withheld the President’s proposal from the Foreign Minister. Might it not be worth while to check up on this with Admiral Nomura?

Grew
  1. Not printed, but see memorandum by the Ambassador in Japan, July 27, 1941, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 534.↩
  2. See memorandum by the Acting Secretary of State, July 24, 1941, ibid., p. 527.↩