711.94/2182b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant)
3219. Reference Department’s 3208, August 18, 8 p.m. Please inform the Prime Minister that the Japanese Ambassador in his interview with the President on August 17 made reference to a question which he had raised previously with me in regard to a meeting between the heads of the Japanese Government and the Government of the United States. The Japanese Government has now requested that this proposal be held in strict confidence. Under the circumstances please convey to the Prime Minister a request that the President’s message to the Prime Minister as contained in the telegram under reference be held in strictest confidence and that it not be communicated, for the time being and until further word from this Government, to British diplomatic missions abroad including the British Embassy at Tokyo.23
- A similar request for secrecy was conveyed to the British Embassy in regard to the same subject (711.94/2184).↩