751G.92/168
Memorandum by the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck)2
[Washington,] January 6, 1941.
Japan is apparently building up a trade in export of arms. It might easily develop that Japan would become a purveyor of arms to a considerable number of Asiatic and Latin American countries. We could not look with gratification upon such a development. For the time being at least, this affords an additional reason for trying to keep export from this country to Japan of various types of material down to not more than “normal” amounts.
S[tanley] K. H[ornbeck]
- Noted by the Secretary of State.↩