Office of the Historian

711.94/1608: Telegram

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

Washington, August 8, 1940—3 p.m.

296. Your 619, July 26, 5 p.m.,39 paragraph 3. The Foreign Minister’s message to the Secretary was delivered to the Secretary upon his return from Habana and before his subsequent departure from Washington on brief leave. As opportunity offers please convey to the Foreign Minister an expression of the Secretary’s appreciation and of his assurance that he shares the Foreign Minister’s views with regard to the importance of Japanese-American relations.

Welles
  1. Not printed, but see memorandum by the Ambassador in Japan, July 26, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 104.↩