893.102S/2224: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
Washington, August 28, 1940—7
p.m.
326. Paragraph numbered 2 of your 756, August 27, 6 p.m. Please seek an early occasion to inform Mr. Matsuoka that so far as this Government is aware there was no intrigue and no understanding with regard to the question of the disposal to be made of the sectors formerly allocated in the defense plan to the British forces and that we were given by the British very short notice of their intention to withdraw their forces from their sectors.
Hull