Office of the Historian

711.94/2312a: Telegram

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

Washington, September 23, 1941—6 p.m.

607. For the Ambassador and the Counselor only. The Japanese Ambassador called at his request on September 2363 and read an oral statement substantially the same as that contained in your 1497, September 22, 8 p.m.64 He then handed me two documents, the first containing the basic peace terms, which are the same as the first five terms listed in your 1498, September 22, 9 p.m.65 Terms 6, 7, 8, and 9 are not contained in the document which the Japanese Ambassador gave me. The second document, containing replies to the questions raised on September 10,66 was substantially the same as that communicated to you on September 13 by the Foreign Minister.67

I informed the Ambassador that I would give careful and expeditious study to the papers which he had given me and would communicate with him as soon as possible.

Hull
  1. See memorandum of September 23, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 634.↩
  2. Not printed, but see memorandum by the Ambassador in Japan, September 22, 1941, ibid., p. 631.↩
  3. Telegram not printed; for text of basic terms, see ibid., p. 633.↩
  4. See memorandum of September 10, 1941, ibid., p. 614.↩
  5. Ibid., p. 623.↩