Office of the Historian

711.94114 Supplies/10–2744: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in the Soviet Union (Kennan)

Washington, October 29, 1944—3 p.m.

2558. ReEmbs 4120, October 27.14 American authorities will accept all mail from Japan whether from American prisoners and internees [Page 1192] in Japan or from Japanese citizens to Japanese prisoners and internees in Western Hemisphere. American authorities will also accept any relief supplies sent from Japan for Japanese nationals in Allied custody15 (see also Depts 2532, October 26).

Stettinius
  1. See footnote 9, p. 1189.↩
  2. Japanese goods received from the Hakusan Maru for distribution in the United States reached San Francisco near the end of November.↩