840.51 Frozen Credits/3387: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 8—9:10 a.m.]
1425. Department’s 565, September 5, 11 a.m. [p.m.] The Embassy recommends that the following paragraph be added to the aide-mémoire to be left with the Foreign Office:
“As it has been the practice of many of the American official establishments and American officials in the Japanese Empire to maintain official and personal balances with, and to conduct other financial transactions through, the National City Bank of New York, and in view of the fact that the Japanese Government has specified the Yokosuka Specia [Yokohama Specie?] Bank as the bank through which the salaries of the Japanese Government officials is to be remitted and that the American Government perceives no objection thereto, it is assumed that the Japanese Government will equally perceive no objection of granting to the National City Bank of New York, the necessary permits to enable it to handle the financial transactions of the American official establishments and American officials in Japan.
An expression of the assent of the Japanese Government of the foregoing would be appreciated.”
The Department’s instructions are requested.40
- In its telegram No. 572, September 8, 7 p.m., the Department approved the Ambassador’s proposed addition to the aide-mémoire. ↩