Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, The Far East, Volume VIII

740.00119 Control (Japan)/4–346: Circular telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic and Consular Officers⁹⁴

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Washington, April 3, 1946—noon.

MacArthur has notified Mountbatten⁹⁵ of detailed plans for sinking and otherwise disposing of large Japanese naval vessels and submarines and requested Mountbatten take similar action.

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94. At Bangkok, Batavia, Chungking, London, and Singapore.
95. Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, Southeast Asia.