740.0011 Pacific War/662
The Netherland Legation to the Department of State 5
Memorandum
With reference to the suggested modus vivendi the Netherlands Minister for Foreign Affairs considers that as the negotiations can only begin at this point, the suggested military and economical concessions as a start seem to be quite far-reaching.
Justice, order and law are words which the Japanese are unable or unwilling to understand; furthermore they ascribe to others the same subterfuges they and Hitler employ themselves for ulterior motives.
That Japan will leave the Axis, seems at the present moment most unlikely.
- Handed on November 27 to the Secretary of State by the Netherland Minister (Loudon).↩