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The American Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (Hirota)
My Dear Mr. Minister: In accordance with your request I take great pleasure in communicating to Your Excellency the message from Mr. Hull which was conveyed orally in our conversation this morning.
Mr. Hull sincerely appreciates Your Excellency’s desire that good relations with the United States should be maintained. At all times during the past five years Mr. Hull has striven with that end in view and in all frankness and friendliness Mr. Hull feels that he must express his apprehension lest the cause of promoting and developing those mutually good relations, which both Your Excellency and Mr. Hull have constantly in mind, should be injured by the present situation in the Far East.
With high respect, I am [etc.]