Office of the Historian

740.0011 P. W./264: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, July 18, 1941—4 p.m.
[Received July 18—6:35 a.m.]

1026. For the Acting Secretary. Department’s 404, July 16, 6 p.m.30 It would seem that the Japanese Ambassador’s interpretation of article 3 of the Tripartite Treaty is substantially that of the Prime Minister (please see Embassy’s 924, July 2nd, 7 p.m.31) and not that of Mr. Matsuoka. (Please see Embassy’s 673, May 14, 5 p.m.32 and 707, May 19, 10 p.m.32a)

Grew
  1. Not printed, but see memorandum dated July 15, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, pp. 506, 508–509.↩
  2. Post, p. 991.↩
  3. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 145.↩
  4. Ante, p. 204.↩