Office of the Historian

711.94/2479a: Telegram

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

Washington, November 26, 1941—8 p.m.

783. I called in the Japanese Ambassador and Mr. Kurusu in the afternoon of November 261 and gave them two documents—an oral statement2 and draft outline of a proposed basis for a broad agreement covering the entire Pacific area.3

A summary of these documents follows in a subsequent telegram.4

Hull
  1. See memorandum of November 26, 1941, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 764.↩
  2. Ibid., p. 766.↩
  3. Ibid., p. 768.↩
  4. Telegram No. 784 of the same date, not printed; it was repeated to the Ambassador in China as telegram No. 274.↩