Office of the Historian

761.9411/95a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)55

Washington, April 14, 1941—11 p.m.

231. You will read in today’s radio bulletin a statement by the Secretary made this morning56 in response to inquiries by press correspondents in regard to the Soviet-Japanese pact relating to neutrality. It is suggested that, for purposes of background and for discreet use in conversation with officials of foreign governments if occasion therefor should arise and seem opportune, you may wish to review the memorandum on the subject of Russo-Japanese relations enclosed with the Department’s mail instruction of December 8, 1939.57

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  1. The same telegram sent to the Embassies in the United Kingdom and France as telegrams No. 1250, 6 p.m., and No. 319, 9 p.m., respectively.↩
  2. See telegram No. 461, April 15, 5 p.m., to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union, p. 948.↩
  3. Instruction not printed; for text of the memorandum, handed to the French and British Ambassadors on December 2 and 6, 1939, respectively, see Foreign Relations, 1939, vol. iii, p. 92.↩