Efforts by the United States to send financial and other assistance to American nationals held by Japan ⁵⁵

^55. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. v, pp. 1015 ff. For documentation on efforts by the United States to arrange with the Soviet Union for the acceptance and onward shipment of relief supplies and mail for the benefit of prisoners of war and interned civilians in Japanese-controlled territory, see ibid., 1945, vol. v, pp. 1053.

[Efforts for the relief of American nationals held by Japan continued in 1945, taking the form of money payments by the United States through Swiss officials and by the sending of relief supplies. A major problem presented was the continuing depreciation of the purchasing power of the Japanese yen and the Central Reserve Bank currency issued by the Japanese-sponsored regime at Nanking which lessened the ability of the United States to provide adequate relief. For the most part, documentation on these subjects has been omitted.]