Office of the Historian

740.0011 Pacific War/856

The Secretary of State to President Roosevelt

Washington, December 6, 1941.

There is attached your message to the Emperor of Japan75 with page three of the message amended to take care of the point with regard to which I spoke to you on the telephone.

If you approve the draft as it now stands, we shall see that it gets off to Grew at once.76

C[ordell] H[ull]
  1. Supra. ↩
  2. President Roosevelt’s handwritten notation in returning papers to the Secretary of State: “C. H. OK—send the amended p. 3 to the British Ambassador & send copy to me. FDR”. President Roosevelt’s message was transmitted in telegram No. 818, December 6, 9 p.m., to the Ambassador in Japan, with instructions to communicate it to the Japanese Emperor in such manner as deemed most appropriate by the Ambassador and at the earliest possible moment, addressed to “His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of Japan.” The telegram added that the press was being informed that the President was dispatching a message to the Emperor.↩