500.A4B/603
The Secretary of State to the Japanese Ambassador (Saito)
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s note of December 29, informing me that the Government of Japan gives notice to the Government of the United States of America of its intention to terminate the Treaty limiting naval armament signed at Washington on February 6, 1922, which will accordingly cease to be in force after the thirty-first of December, 1936.
In accordance with the pertinent provision of Article 23 of the Treaty, I am today transmitting to the other Powers a certified copy of this notification and am informing them of the date on which it has been received.14
Accept [etc.]
- Notes to the British, French, and Italian Ambassadors, and the Canadian and South African Ministers, not printed.↩