Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1941, The Far East, Volume IV

740.0011 Pacific War/1301

The Netherland Legation to the Department of State ²⁹

The Netherlands Government requests the U. S. Government to be good enough to instruct the U. S. authorities in the Philippines to inform the Netherlands Consul General at Manila of any imminent Japanese danger in order that he may [be] enabled to inform the Netherlands Foreign Minister in London and the Governor General of the Netherlands Indies.

[ Washington ,] November 29, 1941.

29. Notation on original by the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck): “Taken up with Captain Schuirmann [Captain Roscoe E. Schuirmann, Office of Naval Operations]”.