Office of the Historian

711.94/2180: Telegram

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

Tokyo, August 18, 1941—8 p.m.
[Received August 18—9:35 a.m.]

1266. For the Secretary and Under Secretary only. I am preparing a long telegram to be sent to you this evening12 reporting a conversation of two and a half hours with the Foreign Minister this afternoon in which an important proposal is set forth. This proposal is to be communicated to the President by the Japanese Ambassador in Washington. It is important that pending receipt and consideration of the proposal any contemplated further economic measures against Japan should if possible be held in abeyance.

Grew
  1. Telegram No. 1268, August 18, 1941, 10 p.m., Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 565; see also memorandum of August 18, by the Ambassador in Japan, ibid., p. 560.↩