Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1942, General; the British Commonwealth; the Far East, Volume I

124.94/103b: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Switzerland (Huddle)

Washington, December 8, 1941—5 p.m.

268. The Department desires that you request the Swiss Government to be good enough to ascertain through the Swiss Legation at Tokyo whether the Japanese Government is willing to agree in principle to an exchange of Japanese consular and diplomatic officers and Japanese nationals in the United States for American consular and diplomatic officers and American nationals in the Japanese Empire and the Japanese occupied territory of China and Manchuria.

If the Japanese Government gives an indication of its willingness in principle to reach an agreement along the lines mentioned above, the Department will be glad to consider any means that the Japanese Government may wish to propose by which to effect such a transfer.

Hull