Office of the Historian

701.9454/8–1445: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Harrison)95
Washington, August 14, 1945—8 p.m.

2535. See Dept’s cirtel concerning Japanese archives.96 Request Swiss to communicate following to the Japanese Govt:

“The Japanese Govt will immediately instruct its diplomatic and consular offices in neutral countries to surrender custody of all property and archives to representatives of Allied powers.

The Japanese Govt will likewise authorize the appropriate government protecting its interests to relinquish diplomatic and consular property and archives to the custody of Allied powers in belligerent countries.”

Byrnes
  1. Repeated to Chungking, Moscow, and London as telegrams 1259, 1836, and 6912, respectively.↩
  2. Supra. ↩