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

751G.92/443: Telegram

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

Tokyo , May 9, 1941—8 p.m.
[Received May 9—8:16 a.m.]

658. Announcement was made today of the signing this morning of the convention of peace between France, for French Indochina, and Thailand, with three protocols annexed, the Japanese-French protocol, and the Japanese-Thai protocol.⁹⁹

A statement issued by the board of information summarizing the contents of the peace treaty and the protocols has been sent via air mail to Shanghai for transmission to the Department.¹

Grew

99. For text of convention of peace between France and Thailand and its protocol, see British and Foreign State Papers, vol. cxliv, p. 805. For texts of the Japanese-French protocol and the French-Japanese-Thai protocol, see ibid., pp. 800 and 802.
1. Not printed.