Office of the Historian

811.30 Asiatic Fleet/527: Telegram

The Chief of Naval Operations (Leahy) to the Commander in Chief, United States Asiatic Fleet (Yarnell)24

[Washington,] 20 August, 1938.

0020. Your 0020–1040 approved except for the acceptance of offer of transportation fuel and provisions from Japanese which is not approved at this time. State Department recommends that in your reply to Admiral Oikawa the words “recognize special situation” be deleted and instead the words “in view of navigational difficulties” be substituted.

  1. Copy transmitted to the Department by the Navy Department.↩