840.51 Frozen Credits/3453: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
648. Your 1430, September 8, midnight,69 and subsequent confidential code telegram in regard to regulations for the control of transactions concerning foreigners.
The Department desires unless conditions have materially improved that an emphatic and comprehensive approach be made to the Japanese Government on behalf of American nationals residing in Japan, other than official personnel, who are suffering undue hardship as a result of regulations enforced in Japan with regard to transactions concerning foreigners. The approach should be in reply to the Japanese Government’s note of September 8 reported in your 1430, September 8, midnight. The Department feels that the Embassy is more familiar with the facts and is, therefore, in a better position than is the Department to draft the communication on this subject. However, the Department suggests that you might refute various of the Japanese Government’s allegations by reference to the facts, along the lines of your confidential comments to the Department.
Please telegraph the Department whether there has been any improvement in the situation since your last report. Also, after making a further approach to the Japanese Government along the lines indicated in this telegram, please press the Japanese Government for early and favorable response and keep the Department currently informed by telegraph of developments.
Sent to Tokyo via Peiping.
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