Office of the Historian

711.94/2413: Telegram

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

Tokyo, November 5, 1941—11 p.m.
[Received November 5—8:58 a.m.]

1752. For the Secretary and Under Secretary. Department’s 714, November 4, 7 p.m.82 As the news of Kurusu’s departure for the United States has already leaked from the Foreign Office, the Foreign Office will tonight announce to the press that he is going to Washington to cooperate with Ambassador Nomura in connection with the current conversation.

Grew
  1. Not printed; but see memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, November 4, p. 566, and Ambassador Grew’s memorandum of the same date, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 704.↩