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

740.0011 Pacific War/1323

Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs (Smyth)³⁹

[Washington,] November 22, 1941.

Mr. Hayter of the British Embassy informed Mr. Smyth during a call on November 22, 1941 that the British Embassy had received a report dated November 17 from the British Consulate General at Batavia to the effect that all Japanese, except consular staffs and certain key business men, have been ordered to leave the Netherlands East Indies and will sail from Sourabaya on the Fuji Maru on November 28. Mr. Hayter stated that after the departure of these Japanese there would remain only four hundred Japanese of the seven thousand Japanese resident there prior to the current difficulties between the Netherlands East Indies and Japan.

39. Initialed by the Chief of the Division (Hamilton).