Office of the Historian

756D.94/153: Telegram

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

Tokyo, May 24, 1941—1 p.m.
[Received May 24—9:38 a.m.]

727. Batavia’s telegram 51, May 23, 2 p.m. to the Department. On May 22 Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs spoke to my Netherlands colleague about supplies of rubber and tin and in the course of this interview Mr. Ohashi said that owing to the stiffening attitude of the Netherlands authorities a stage was approaching at which the Japanese Government must consider the recall of Mr. Yoshizawa and might be compelled to take further steps which they strongly dislike to take.11

Grew
  1. In his telegram No. 728, May 24, 2 p.m., Ambassador Grew reported to the Department a request made by Foreign Minister Matsuoka to the British Ambassador in Japan that the British Government use its good offices with the Netherlands Government in regard to the Japanese economic negotiations in the Netherlands East Indies (756 D. 94/155).↩