711.94114 Supplies/11–244: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Switzerland (Huddle)
3979. Please request Swiss Government communicate following to Japanese Government:
American Government having noted from recent Japanese broadcast that Hakusan Maru arrived safely at Kobe on November 11 desires to convey to Japanese Government former’s gratification at the successful completion of this shipment of relief supplies and mail for the benefit of Allied and Japanese nationals detained as the result of hostilities. Operations of this nature implement in a positive sense declarations of humanitarian principles to which substantially all the nations of the world have expressed agreement and which give expression to the civilized concept that detained noncombatant and captured military personnel should, in so far as circumstances permit, be protected from unnecessary danger and hardship.
The Government of the United States hopes that the Japanese Government will be willing to participate in further operations of this nature. The Government of the United States will address in the near future a further communication to the Japanese Government in this regard.