Office of the Historian

711.94/234423/25

President Roosevelt to the Secretary of State

Hyde Park, N. Y., September 28, 1941.

I wholly agree with your pencilled note—to recite the more liberal original attitude of the Japanese when they first sought the meeting, point out their much narrowed position now, earnestly ask if they cannot go back to their original attitude, start discussions again on agreement in principle, and reemphasize my hope for a meeting.74

F[ranklin] D. R[oosevelt]
  1. See oral statement of October 2, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 656.↩