740.00114A Pacific War/272: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland ( Harrison )
178. American interests—Far East. Your 6222, December 30.98 If no reply has yet been received from Japanese Government to communication submitted on December 28, please request Swiss Government to present to Japanese Government a communication in the following sense:
“The Government of the United States had hoped to receive an early reply from the Japanese Government to the communication submitted on December 28, 1942, by the Swiss Legation at Tokyo relating to the question of opening a means for forwarding supplemental supplies and mail between the United States and the Far East [Page 1014] for prisoners of war and civilian internees.99 As no answer has yet been received, the Government of the United States would like to know at the earliest possible moment when a reply may be expected.”
- Not printed; it reported that the contents of telegram No. 2868, December 19, 1942, to the Minister in Switzerland, had been communicated to the Japanese Government on December 28. For text of telegram No. 2868, see Foreign Relations, 1942, vol. i, p. 839.↩
- In telegram No. 504, March 1, to the Minister in Switzerland, the Department authorized provisionally the transmission through official channels of personal messages to and from Japan on behalf of American nationals (012.3/8489).↩