740.0011 P. W./265
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Acting Secretary of State
The British Ambassador called to see me this morning at his request. The Ambassador read to me a series of telegrams exchanged between his Foreign Office and the British Ambassador in Tokyo, all of which [Page 200] were already known to the Department. The Ambassador asked if I had any further information with regard to developments in Japan and I stated that this Government had not received today any further light on that problem. The Ambassador inquired, by direction of his Government, whether the United States would address a message to the Japanese Government similar to that already communicated to the Japanese Government by the British Ambassador in Tokyo indicating concern at the reports that Japan was about to undertake a movement in the South. I told the Ambassador that a message had been sent in the name of the Secretary of State, by request of the President, to the Prime Minister of Japan only four days ago74 which in my judgment covered the ground completely and that we were still awaiting some word from our Ambassador to Japan as to the nature of the reply made to that message by the Japanese Government.75
- Dated July 6, 1941, at Tokyo; Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 502.↩
- For Japanese reply of July 8, 1941, see ibid., p. 503.↩