Office of the Historian

711.417/1163: Telegram

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

Tokyo, September 5, 1941—1 p.m.
[Received September 5—5:50 a.m.]

1389. Department’s telegram No. 475, August 7, 2 p.m. I discussed yesterday with the Minister for Foreign Affairs himself the importance of reaching a provisional agreement on fur seals prior to the expiration of the Fur Seal Convention of 1911, on October 22, next, on the basis of the proposals advanced in our note number 1881, of August 9 [19?], 1941,27 and I requested the Minister to set a time for a review of this whole subject by the Minister and myself after he had familiarized himself with its detail.

Grew
  1. The formal note presented by Ambassador Grew to the Foreign Office in accordance with Department’s telegraphic instruction No. 475, August 7, 2 p.m., p. 915.↩