Office of the Historian

711.94/2286: Telegram

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

Washington, September 18, 1941—6 p.m.

596. For the Ambassador and the Counselor only. The Japanese Ambassador has made no approach to us as yet along the lines outlined in your 1455, September 13, 10 p.m.,40 and it is assumed that this is because of the consideration which is being given by the Japanese Government to the matter mentioned in your 1482, September 18, 7 p.m.

Hull
  1. Not printed, but see Japanese document of September 13, 1941, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 623.↩