894.00/1083: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
Washington, July 29,
1941—11 p.m.
441. Your 1090, July 26, 10 a.m. From various indications and information from different sources which we have received it would appear to us that the Japanese move was methodically planned with complete cooperation between the fighting services and the civilian branch of the Japanese Government. While this would not exclude the possibility that the original initiative may have come from the high command, we judge that the Japanese Government as a whole has for some time been in favor of the Indochina move.
Welles