840.51 Frozen Credits/3519: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
623. Your 1470, September 17, 1 p.m. and 1465, September 16, 5 p.m.60 The Japanese note verbale in itself is acceptable to this Government. It is noted, however, that there has been no reply to our oral request for assurances that the treatment of American official establishments and personnel in Japan which the Japanese Government may agree upon shall in fact be extended to the official establishments and personnel of this Government in Manchuria and the occupied areas of China. However, in order to avoid further delay you are authorized to fulfil the conditions set forth in the note verbale with respect to the official establishments and personnel of this Government in the Japanese Empire and the Kwantung Leased Territory, including, of course, the establishments and personnel of all the agencies of this Government. At the same time that you furnish this information, however, it is desired that you make an oral statement, leaving a written record thereof, along lines as follows:
“It is assumed that the Japanese Government will take prompt action to the end that there shall be effectively extended to the official establishments and personnel of the Government of the United States in Manchuria and the Japanese-occupied areas of China allowances and privileges equivalent to those accruing to the official American establishments and personnel in Japan and to official Japanese establishments and personnel in the United States.”
The Department is instructing the Embassy at Peiping to keep a close check on whether American official establishments and personnel functioning in posts in Manchuria and the Japanese-occupied areas of China where restrictions on withdrawals and expenditures by official establishments and personnel are in force receive in the future allowances and privileges no less favorable than those accruing to American and Japanese official establishments and personnel each in the territory of the other and, within a reasonable period of time, say three or four weeks, to report to the Department on the subject by naval radio repeating its report to you.
[Page 891]Please repeat to Peiping your 1465, September 16, 5 p.m., and furnish Peiping by mail a precise list of the data which you plan to furnish the Japanese Government in regard to American official establishments and personnel.
Sent to Tokyo via Peiping.