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Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs (Hamilton)65a

[Washington,] January 31, 1941.

We believe it advisable that this Government in some way make known to the Japanese Government its interest in Japan’s mediation of the Thai-French Indochinese controversy. The procedure suggested in one of the attached telegrams66 is designed to do that in a way which would not expose this Government to the same risk of a rebuff as the procedures previously discussed.67

M[axwell] M. H[amilton]
  1. Addressed to the Secretary of State and the Under Secretary of State.↩
  2. See telegram No. 76, February 3, 8 p.m., to the Ambassador in Japan, p. 54.↩
  3. Notation by the Secretary of State: “Only a suggestion to consider: Grew might accompany this cable by copy of my statement of principles of July 1937, so Japan cannot claim not to understand U. S. exact attitude. C. H.” For the Secretary’s statement of July 16, 1937, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 325.↩