Office of the Historian

894.24/1545

The British Embassy to the Department of State 25

June 3, 1941

Telegram From London Dated June 3rd 1941

Japan. His Majesty’s Ambassador at Tokyo has been instructed to make it clear to the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs that we are not prepared to exert influence on the Netherlands Government to increase the supply of rubber from Netherlands East Indies to Japan particularly as we are not satisfied that Japan is not facilitating the acquisition by Germany of the rubber from Indo-China and elsewhere.

  1. Transmitted to the Department on June 9.↩