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Chapter II: April–July 3, 1941

Anglo-American cooperation to counteract extension of Japanese control in Thailand; British proposal of declaration by United States, British, and Netherlands Governments respecting threat to their security from farther Japanese southward advance; disinclination of Secretary of State to issue further statement to Japan (April 28); signature of Franco-Japanese commercial accords on Indochina (May 6) and of Thai-Indochina peace settlement (May 9) at Tokyo; American representations to Japan and France over Japanese military seizure of American transit cargoes in French Indochina; breakdown of Japanese-Netherlands East Indies economic negotiations (June 17); American decision to offer economic aid to Thailand

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[156] Memorandum by Mr. Willys R. Peck, of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, of a Conversation With the First Secretary of the British Embassy (Thorold)

[Washington,] May 16, 1941.

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Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1941, The Far East, Volume V

Chapter II: April–July 3, 1941

[150] The Minister in Thailand (Grant) to the Secretary of State

[151] The Minister in Thailand (Grant) to the Secretary of State

[152] The Minister in Thailand (Grant) to the Secretary of State

[153] The Netherland Legation to the Department of State

[154] The British Minister (Butler) to the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck)

[155] Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. Alger Hiss, Assistant to the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck)

[156] Memorandum by Mr. Willys R. Peck, of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, of a Conversation With the First Secretary of the British Embassy (Thorold)

[157] The Minister in Thailand (Grant) to the Secretary of State

[158] The Consul General at Batavia (Foote) to the Secretary of State

[159] The Consul at Hanoi (Reed) to the Secretary of State

[160] The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

[161] The Consul at Hanoi (Reed) to the Secretary of State

[162] The Minister in Thailand (Grant) to the Secretary of State

[163] The Consul at Hanoi (Reed) to the Secretary of State

[164] The Consul at Hanoi (Reed) to the Secretary of State

[165] Memorandum by the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck)

[166] The British Embassy to the Department of State

[167] The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)

[168] The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Leahy)

[169] The Secretary of State to the Minister in Thailand (Grant)

[170] The British Embassy to the Department of State

[171] Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State

[172] Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State

[173] The British Embassy to the Department of State

[174] The Consul at Hanoi (Reed) to the Secretary of State

[175] The British Embassy to the Department of State

[176] The British Minister (Hall) to the Assistant Secretary of State (Acheson)

[177] The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

[178] The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

[179] The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State