701.9454/8–1945: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland (Harrison) to the Secretary of State
[Received 12:36 p.m.]
3929. In note dated August 17, 1945 Federal Political Department informs Legation that Japanese Government has replied as follows through Japanese Legation, Bern, to request contained Department’s 2535, August 14 and forwarded to Japanese Government by Swiss.
“The Government of Japan regrets that it is unable to comply with the demands that the Government of the United States of America has addressed to it on August 15 last by the intermediary of the Government of Switzerland concerning property and archives, since they do not correspond to any provision of the declaration of Potsdam accepted by the Government of Japan.”
Repeated London, Moscow, Chungking.