Office of the Historian

740.0011 Pacific War/771: Telegram

The Chargé in El Salvador (Gade) to the Secretary of State

San Salvador, December 8, 1941.
[Received December 8—3:46 p.m.]

107. At 1 p.m. today the National Legislative Assembly unanimously declared El Salvador in a state of war with Japan and authorized the Executive Power to take similar measures against any other non-American powers which may commit acts of aggression against American countries.

Gade