Office of the Historian

893.102S/2322: Telegram

The Consul at Shanghai (Butrick) to the Secretary of State

Shanghai, October 17, 1940—4 p.m.
[Received October 17—1:31 p.m.]

1105. Hart felt Japanese might be responsive to American representations [in] view [of] recent developments [in] situation United States-Japan, we were conferring when Department’s 482, October 15, 6 p.m. arrived and agreed nothing specific to go on but felt Tokyo might be sounded out.58

Butrick
  1. No correspondence has been found in Department files to indicate further efforts to reach an agreement for the United States to take over the guarding of defense sector B.↩