840.51 Frozen Credits/3649
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State (Acheson)
Mr. Iguchi called at his request. He handed me the attached memorandum relating to the licensing of the accounts of Japanese official representatives in this country and Japanese consular officials, together with the attached list of such accounts and amounts requested.56
[Page 886]Mr. Iguchi stated that he presumed that, an agreement having been reached in Tokyo between Mr. Grew and the Japanese Foreign Office, Mr. Grew would present similar lists and we could then license the accounts. I stated that according to my understanding there was one matter still under discussion between Mr. Grew and the Japanese Foreign Office, which was the extension of similar treatment to American diplomatic and consular accounts and officials in Japanese occupied areas in China; that I understood that the Japanese Government had expressed its willingness to use its good offices to bring about such treatment, but that in view of the importance to us of assuring such similar treatment I could not tell him that we would be prepared to license the accounts in this country until we were assured either that similar treatment would be or had been accorded in Japanese occupied areas in China. I added that this matter was under consideration by other officials in this Department, who were in touch with Mr. Grew, and that I had every hope that the matter would be shortly arranged either with the Japanese Government or in some other satisfactory way.
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